Positively dyslexic nursing

As one journey ends another begins   On the 19 th of January the journey that I began on six years ago came to a end as all my endeavours came to fruition, qualifying with a 2:1 BSc Hons degree in Mental Health Nursing my journey has been full of highs lows self-doubt and self- discovery.  I have met so many wonderful people and made friendships that will last a lifetime, I have   grown in so many ways learnt so much and experienced so much I’ve seen a new life come in to the world and held the hand as one has left   .Arguably the main thing is I’ve learned to enjoy learning something I never did as child. This may be that as back when i was in School I did not now I was dyslexic, I all new was I found reading writing and learning in my earlier blogs i discussed how being diagnosed with dyslexia in my 50s has been life defining and helped me understand me myself and my past .This has consequently led to me taking control of how I   learn and led to me finding strategies personal t

  Welcome to part one of eight months a nurse, into the blues ,  blues is  the term used for the uniform that a qualified nurse wears.   I chose to do my electoral placement on the ward  i was going to work on and had wanted to  work on from my first year as it was my first placement .However as a consequence of  claiming extenuating circumstances my academic work interfered with  my time on elective placement. While on placement  I was still in the process of writing my dissertation and had a viva exam still to do, all which detracted from the experience and joy of my electoral placement. I found writing my dissertation particularly challenging because the framework i had been given was ambiguous and confusing ,and when seeking advice from my fellow students it transpired that all our mentor’s had different  expectations of how a dissertation should be wrote  and what should be in it . which added to the confusion and heightened  my anxieties and affected how i wrote my dissertation

Hi there firstly id like to apologise for not up dating my blog  since qualifying and transitioning from student to a Newly Qualified Nurse  . The last 8 months  have been exceptionably hard both physically and emotionally. Transitioning from student to newly qualified nurse is hard enough but add  to that working and living with Covid-19 along with discovering things about my self and my dyslexia all have taken their toll  which i will go into further detail in my next blog  Today after 8 months  since qualifying my degree finally arrived in the post which caused me to reflect upon my nursing journey led to me thinking i should now pick up were I left off . Coming your way Soon  8 months a Newly Qualified Nurse!!!! 😀