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As in, are they competitive/hard to get into? Enjoyable? Difficult? Typical student? Good social scene? How many hours per week, and how are the placement experiences? Any feedback would be great. Thanks.

Hey, I’m not sure about Kings London myself, however do have friends there that say the social side of things and the Uni are brill. I mean it is the capital of England lol, so it’s gotta be pretty good.

In regards to nursing, I’m doing Special Needs Nursing myself this year at UEA, and it’s standard across the board. First year, whatever course you pick, is basic nursing, and the second & third year is when you study what you chose to specialise in. I.e Special Needs, mental health, children, adult, midwifery, paramedic.

Nursing degree’s USED to be 4 years long, and have now been squashed into 3, so you only have 5 weeks holiday, where as most students have 6 months worth of half-term. But don’t worry, you won’t be a larry, it’s the same for anyone who studies anything to do with medicine. And it just means you get quality study time and full use of an empty library lol.

Your weeks will be split between lectures, and placements to do your practical. But it’s not 1 day here, 1 day there, you’ll do solid lectures for the norm of 7 weeks, followed by placements for 7 weeks. In your first term you’ll do minimal placements as you’re not really good for anything lol, such as 12 weeks study, 2 week placement, then it’s split for every term after that, like 7 weeks 7 weeks placement, RIGHT up until your last term, when you have to do 10 weeks placement, as a 10 week placement has to be completed in order to complete the degree. That runs across the board, whatever type of nursing you do and whatever Uni.

You’ll only allowed 16 days absence/sickness through out the 3 years (no big deal in regards to holidays as you do have 5 weeks of half-term), as a certain amount of practical hours and night shifts need to be completed in order to pass the degree. If you are sick for longer than 16 days, shifts in your half-term will have to be completed to get back on track.

If you’re doing the diploma, granted you do well in your first 2 years, you can even swap over to the degree for your third. If you don’t do as well as planned, you can still do an extra year after and get the degree. This is the LAST year students can do the diploma, as goverment has changed it so that ALL nurses have to be qualified to degree level.

Travel for placement, as long as it’s further than from your dorm to where you do your lectures on campus, is 100% refunded, as is bed & breakfast should you be asked to do a placement that’s not in the city you study. I wont waffle about bursarys, loans and student overdrafts, as I’m sure you know and you didn’t ask.

It DEPENDS what type of nursing you choose as to HOW hard it is to get in. They’re fairly easy, but Special Needs in East Anglia where I am, has been cut from all Uni’s apart from UEA. Meaning there’s 25 places, and one Uni!! However it’s obviously due to the fact this type of nursing is unpopular, so only about 40 people came to the open day, so I’ve just got to beat 15 people to get in. In regards to general nursing, there’s many more places. As long as you have the grades… 5 GCSE’s A-C including Math & English (Science also preferred but not essential) to do the diploma, and that, plus 2 passed A-Levels (maybe even AS levels if you go through clearing) to get into the degree, then you’re sorted as far as applying goes. A good application form goes A LONG way as it’s how they detirmine whether to short list you for an interview. Make sure you take your time on the part that asks you why you want to do the course you’ve chosen, and why Kings College London. If you get as far as the interview, you find out straight away if you’ve gotten in, which is nice. They WILL ask you the same 2 questions about why this course, why this Uni, and me and my friends have found who all picked nursing courses, they asked ‘If your friends were here, what would they say your good & bad qualities are?’… So revise for that. Go to the open day if there is one, even if you don’t need to. Make yourself look keen. And prepare some questions to ask at the end of your interview, to again make yourself look interested.

Course - VERY enjoyable. Every day is different. It’s hard work, but not hard, if that makes sense. Like the study is do-able, there’s just A LOT of it lol. Typical timetable? Mon-Fri 10am-4pm is mine, but on Wednesday the lectures finish at 1pm as thats sports time, which enables all courses to be free at the same time to take part in extra sport at Uni if they wish to.

Placements vary A LOT. You’ll be going to homes with Doctors and Social Services to give advice to families, going on school placements, private clinics/hospitals, NHS clinics/hospitals, foster homes etc. Very enjoyable and you take something different away from every experience.

Hope all this ramble helps. As you can tell I’m excited about my course lol, and will talk for England about it.

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i plan on becomin a traveling nurse, but i would like some feedback from a professional nurse.

I am one, been one for 7 years.I started as an LPN, then got RN. It pays more, housing is free.Rapid response nursing pays the best but you have to have 5 years experience. For regular travel nurse you need 12-18 months med surg experience. If you do well with constant change, its the lifestyle for you. The sign on bonuses are good, the travel is great. i love it, I never get bored. If people are jerks, I always know im leaving soon. Of course it does have its downfalls. Look around for different agencies online. Go to ULTIMATENURSE.COM and ask questions. They are mostly travel nurses in there and will give you a heads up on who to work for and who to stay away from. First step-community college as RN.then sign onto local hospital for year of med surg…then your on your way.

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