12 hour shifts can leave you feeling exhausted. However, student midwife Louisa provides tips on how you can feel more energised on your longer days of nursing.
Louisa, a student midwife and one of our fab influencers, gives you an insight to student midwifery and the 5 things she wishes she knew before she started.
Louisa is a student Midwife, studying at Kingston and St George's in London. In this video she talks about her favourite parts about being a student midwife.
Midwifery's a great job to go into – just imagine the scenes you'll be privy to as a dedicated, trained nurse assisting the birth of new families! Practitioners do say it is a vocation (read: hard work for little thanks) but that the rewards greatly outweigh the slog.
Midwifery is notorious for being one of the hardest areas of healthcare to get into. Places on midwifery courses are limited and always massively over-subscribed so it’s absolutely essential if you’re serious about getting a place on a course, you put the effort into your application, personal statement and interview technique.
We give you some behind-the-scenes insight into how you can make the most of your application and how applications are received by an employer when you apply for an online vacancy.