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STUDENTS

Career

Student placements: surprising skills in a residential home

Advice

Student finances: practical tips

Struggling to make your finances add up?

Advice

5 steps to maths confidence

Every nurse needs basic maths skills, so if numbers make you nervous, read on

People

FGM: 'It’s a hidden abuse’

Why every nurse should know about female genital mutilation

Clinical

Pancreatic cancer: 6 quick questions

One person dies from pancreatic cancer every hour – here’s what you need to know about it

Advice

Social media: the benefits and risks

It can be a positive force – if you use it responsibly

Career

Busting the myths on general practice placements

Two nursing students tell us the truth about this specialty

Clinical

Video: The tech transforming nurse education

We go behind the scenes of Middlesex University’s state-of-the-art simulation centre

Advice

Academic writing: 10 top tips for your studies

Career

Home advantage: the benefits of care home placements

Find out why they're a unique and positive learning environment

People

'I'm a nursing student with ADHD'

Heather shares her experience plus top tips for other students with ADHD

Speaking up for students

Fighting fees and students working together: new student member of RCN Council shares his vision

Clinical

Parkinson’s disease: an empowering podcast

Learn about the condition and how one student helped make a podcast to give patients a voice

Advice

Placements: A Student Survival Guide

Listen to our audio series for nursing students now

Wellbeing

Five ways to help beat burnout

Student Rebecca shares what’s helped her when things have felt overwhelming

Advice

If at first you don't succeed...

How to deal with and learn from failure

Opinion

‘Be active and be vocal’

Lynsey recalls when members in Northern Ireland voted to take strike action

Clinical

Dementia: ahead of the game

Nursing student Katie on the importance of children and young people understanding dementia

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