How to prepare for your Nursing and Midwifery course
Starting your nursing or midwifery course with us soon? We鈥檙e looking forward to welcoming you! If you want to get a head start on your studies and get clued up on what鈥檚 to come, take a look at our list of resources for things you can do to prepare for your course.
Reading and Research
Other than our Nursing and Midwifery blog, there are a few books and journals you can read to get clued up on your course.
An anatomy and physiology book is a great start to your reading, as you鈥檒l be learning a lot about the human body and how it works throughout your course. A great book for beginners is Ross and Wilson: Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness by Allison Wynn Grant, Anne Waugh, and Kathleen J. W. Wilson. Other than this, any reading you can do on the cardiac and respiratory systems will be greatly valuable.
For further academic reading, journals we suggest are the Nursing Times, Nursing Standard, and Journal of Community Nursing.
for nurses, midwives, and nursing associates is an important read, and comes directly from the Nursing and Midwifery Council, who accredit all of our Nursing courses. As well as this, the Royal College of Nursing also offers an extremely helpful list of for new nursing students.
Student midwives will want to subscribe to the Practising Midwife website, or other journals such as the British Journal of Midwifery.
Watch
The BBC series 鈥樷�� features BCU听濒ecturer Ruby Handley-Stone聽as well as other midwives聽and lecturers from around our linked clinical trusts in 探花直播. The show follows midwives as they care for mothers and their newborn babies, focusing on different cases each episode. It鈥檚 a great watch if you want to get a feel for life on a maternity ward, as you will be experiencing similar situations during your placement and eventually your working life, just like Ruby who is聽a graduate of our Midwifery degree,聽combining working as a practising midwife and teaching at the University.
If you want to find out more about life as a student nurse at BCU specifically, we know exactly who to watch! Claire Carmichael is an ex-BCU student who studied Nursing with us. She runs her own 聽where she vlogs about nursing life and has even made educational nursing videos. Her videos range from assignment tips, university life, and how to prepare for placements, to informative videos about blood pressure, breast screening, and transgender healthcare.
Follow
There are several Twitter accounts you can follow to keep up to date with Nursing and Midwifery news:
鈥� general Twitter for all nursing courses
聽鈥� Midwifery on Instagram and Twitter
聽- Learning Disability Twitter
聽- Children and Young People Nursing Twitter
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