I’ve just graduated as a mental health nurse. My placements through 3 years of training gave an indicator of what’s to come. It’s going to be rewarding. But the pressures are likely to increase.
Nursing has become a heavily paperwork and deadline orientated job. With a lack of contact with patients and a lack of sufficient staff numbers on wards we’re battling to care correctly.
By listening to nurses we can identify the pain-points of mental health nursing. This will help attract new RMNs and retain those who might otherwise join the growing numbers quitting.
The perception of a mental health nurse’s work is often wrong or misguided and certainly not well understood by other health care professionals, let alone the public.
In this video, Grace Barry shares a few days of her life as a children's nurse. Managing her life around a week of long shifts requires planning to maintain a healthy and active home life. Here's how.
A nursing degree is not like any other degree. For a start, the holidays are shorter and you have to work hard! In this video Eniola takes us to her college for a day in her life as a student nurse.
