Diary of a Nurse – Claire Carmichael

Category: advice

Here’s my personally top essentials you will need on your student nurse journey at university and in your placements. I also did a vlog on…

19th March 2018: Today I started my very own clinic! In the morning, I had patients that needed their blood pressure review and in the…

I did a vlog on my first week experience of my general practice nursing placement. Give it a watch if you like that sort of…

Wow. Just wow. Where do I even begin with how my first day has gone?!! I arrived very early for my shift, in fact an…

Imagine getting this (screen shot to the left) through to your email? I had to read this email a few times before it really sank…

We had an amazing skills session a couple of weeks ago about how to insert a nasogastric tube (NG) into a patient (using a mannequin)…

I opened my email to read ‘you have been nominated to sit in on the interview panels at university’….. ummm ‘what… haha! Me? Sitting in…

I made a vlog on questions and answers for nursing. For future student nurses. If anyone has any other advice and tips please comment for…

It is Christmas Eve and I am currently on a coach to my sisters house. A whole 6 hours and 45 minutes journey, it could…

On Monday 18th decemeber 2017 at 10:00am I went to an event held by the university called: Know Your Organs. The university did not disappoint. This…