• Book Review | The Memory Book by Lara Avery

    The Memory Book | Amazon **Disclaimer// I would like to thank NetGalley, Quercus Children’s Books and the author, Lara Avery for providing me an electronic review copy of the novel The Memory Book for review purposes.

  • Nurse Knits | Things I have knitted in Jan/Feb 2023

    Hello everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog. I hope you are having a lovely day or evening, and that you are keeping warm. I cannot believe that it is already February. January just flew by in a blink of an eye, and I do not know how I feel about it. It has…

  • Nurse Knits | Chapter 1

    Nurse Knits | Chapter 1

    Hello everyone, welcome to the first chapter of the blog, Nurse Knits  I hope you are keeping warm during this cold winter day. I know I am. I’m buried under a thick blanket, and I am wearing this blanket with sleeves that I got for Christmas; all I can say is I am cosy AF! Today,…

  • Intentions for 2023

    Welcome or welcome back to my blog, Nurse Knits, also previously known as Flipping through the pages This blog has had so many changes in the past five years, but it lacked content – so I thought it was time to revive this little piece of my life on the internet again. It is currently 01:17 am on…

  • Clever Girl

    Year 11 I made choices, not for myself but for the people around me Be a doctor, be a lawyer “Go to Oxford” “go to Cambridge” “go to a Russell Group” – they chanted simultaneously overestimating what i can do not knowing the pressure i was starting to feel not knowing the effect it had…

  • Student Nurse Essentials

    Hello lovely readers and welcome back to my blog, So if you were like me when I was starting out as a Student Nurse, you might be wondering what kind of things you need as a Student Nurse. As such, you might have stumbled upon this blog post. If that is the case, then feel…

  • Reflections

    In six days, I will mark my 5th month of being a newly qualified and registered nurse. It is scary to think that it has been this long since I have qualified, moved out of my parents home, moved to a new city and adjust to a new normal. Just to spice things up a…

  • act 2 // New Beginnings

    Hello lovely readers, Last month, I completed my nurse training. I have passed all of my assignments and I was signed-off for my final placement. All I am doing now is waiting to register for my PIN. This should be a time for celebration and yet here I am sat in-front of my brother’s computer…

  • act 1 // end scene

    25 February 2020 A very significant day. The day that highlighted that I have completed at least 2300 hours of clinical placement, the minimum requirement for student nurses in order to Register for their PINS. 25 February 2020 signified the penultimate end of my days as a Student Nurse. I have completed mandatory hours. I…

  • A First Year Student Nurse’s Reflective Essay | In Good Hands

    Hello lovely readers, Today’s essay is the very first reflective essay I have written as a student nurse. I wrote this as part of our Professional Development module and after a workshop that our PAT conducted that involved Arts & Crafts and a bit of role playing. I remember really enjoying this particular workshop because…

  • ‘Have nurses lost the ability to care?’ | A first year student nurse’s first academic essay.

    As you can tell from the title of this post (maybe not), the content of this post will be the first academic essay I wrote as a student nurse. One of our core modules was Professional Development and part of the homework we were set during the first term involved the question ‘Have nurses lost…

  • The Memory Book | Amazon **Disclaimer// I would like to thank NetGalley, Quercus Children’s Books and the author, Lara Avery for providing me an electronic review copy of the novel The Memory Book for review purposes.

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  • Hello everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog. I hope you are having a lovely day or evening, and that you are keeping warm. I cannot believe that it is already February. January just flew by in a blink of an eye, and I do not know how I feel about it. It has…

    Read more

  • Nurse Knits | Chapter 1

    Hello everyone, welcome to the first chapter of the blog, Nurse Knits  I hope you are keeping warm during this cold winter day. I know I am. I’m buried under a thick blanket, and I am wearing this blanket with sleeves that I got for Christmas; all I can say is I am cosy AF! Today,…

    Read more

  • Intentions for 2023

    Welcome or welcome back to my blog, Nurse Knits, also previously known as Flipping through the pages This blog has had so many changes in the past five years, but it lacked content – so I thought it was time to revive this little piece of my life on the internet again. It is currently 01:17 am on…

    Read more

  • Clever Girl

    Year 11 I made choices, not for myself but for the people around me Be a doctor, be a lawyer “Go to Oxford” “go to Cambridge” “go to a Russell Group” – they chanted simultaneously overestimating what i can do not knowing the pressure i was starting to feel not knowing the effect it had…

    Read more

  • Hello lovely readers and welcome back to my blog, So if you were like me when I was starting out as a Student Nurse, you might be wondering what kind of things you need as a Student Nurse. As such, you might have stumbled upon this blog post. If that is the case, then feel…

    Read more

  • Reflections

    In six days, I will mark my 5th month of being a newly qualified and registered nurse. It is scary to think that it has been this long since I have qualified, moved out of my parents home, moved to a new city and adjust to a new normal. Just to spice things up a…

    Read more

  • Hello lovely readers, Last month, I completed my nurse training. I have passed all of my assignments and I was signed-off for my final placement. All I am doing now is waiting to register for my PIN. This should be a time for celebration and yet here I am sat in-front of my brother’s computer…

    Read more

  • act 1 // end scene

    25 February 2020 A very significant day. The day that highlighted that I have completed at least 2300 hours of clinical placement, the minimum requirement for student nurses in order to Register for their PINS. 25 February 2020 signified the penultimate end of my days as a Student Nurse. I have completed mandatory hours. I…

    Read more

  • Hello lovely readers, Today’s essay is the very first reflective essay I have written as a student nurse. I wrote this as part of our Professional Development module and after a workshop that our PAT conducted that involved Arts & Crafts and a bit of role playing. I remember really enjoying this particular workshop because…

    Read more

  • As you can tell from the title of this post (maybe not), the content of this post will be the first academic essay I wrote as a student nurse. One of our core modules was Professional Development and part of the homework we were set during the first term involved the question ‘Have nurses lost…

    Read more