While on placement at an emergency ward last year I was conducting my routine observations when I heard a commotion behind the nurses’ station.

When you look around your lecture halls, have you noticed the number of student nurses shrinking? I remember my first day sitting in a giant sports hall surrounded by my fellow enthusiastic students. However over the months our numbers seemed to have grown fewer and fewer.

This week Student Nursing Times will be publishing advice for students transitioning from education to employment however for a second year student who is exactly halfway through his training, the thought of qualifying only makes the ‘second-year blues’ even worse.

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A while ago I spoke of the importance of a good relationship between you and your mentor but the relationship between you and your lecturers is just as important.

Having to sit in lectures for most of the week, it soon becomes clear what makes a good lecturer.

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Have you witnessed your first death?

I have, as I spent a couple of years working as a healthcare assistant on a care of the elderly ward and unfortunately death was a natural part of the job.

However for some students who have not been present at a death before, encountering the death of a patient can bring up some very personal and distressing emotions. It doesn’t matter whether that death was expected, or as a result of a sudden traumatic incident, the feelings involved can still be the same.

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