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1st December 2021
01:30pm GMT
Like many other student nurses, Nina and Jessica both also work as healthcare assistants which means that they mix with more patients. The recent confirmed arrival of the Omicron variant also brings new challenges.
"You’re constantly moving around as a student, so you have to be careful you don’t bring it into another ward," says Jessica.
And again, she finds her education is impacted on top of this."I was meant to be on a normal cardiac ward but when I went to the placement that morning and it was a Covid ward," she says.
"My learning outcomes for that placement had nothing to do with what I was supposed to learn, it was just Covid so I lost out on three weeks of learning."
"You have a nurse supervisor for the day, but if they’re really busy they don’t have time to teach you," adds Nina. "So then you’re used as a healthcare assistant for the day sometimes, or you're left there waiting for someone to teach."
Jessica and Nina both advocate for student nurses to receive financial support, as well as more support and communication throughout their placements.
"Student nurses need financial support. That’s the biggest thing that affects me, is having to work on top of placement, to achieve everything that I should be achieving on placement."Explore more on these topics:
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