Trainee nursing associate Review
at NHS
Higher Level Apprenticeship
Healthcare, Science
Nottingham
Review Submitted: April 2022
Overall Rating
3.2 /5
The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!
3/5
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Overview of Role
3/5
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Skills Development
3/5
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Structure and Support
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:
4/5
Delivering holistic care to patients in the end stages of life, providing palliative care within a hospital environment. Personal care, helping with meals, medications, daily tasks and helping other professionals with the patients care. Helping relatives with the end of life pathway and providing care within the community with our McMillan nurses.
To what extent do you enjoy your programme?
2/5
I do mostly enjoy my program, I find it difficult to learn over a computer on teams, I would much prefer face to face lecturers/ sessions. I have found one subject difficult as I feel we haven’t covered some topics and need to produce an assignment I feel I can’t
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
3/5
I can assist with catheterisation, fetch blood from the blood bank, help take samples which the doctors may need, I can do bladder scans and help with hygiene needs, I can assist the nurses with administering medications, I have developed my communication skills and also my computer skills as I have learned new programs
Structure and Support
How well organised/structured is your programme?
3/5
It’s been going ok so far, I feel like I said previously it has been a little stressful with the online sessions, finding the rooms for the sessions can be difficult too, having subjects once a fortnight is difficult to remember previous sessions. I have found the online timetable to be good
How much support do you receive from your employer?
2/5
I have found getting the right amount of protective learning time whilst at work hard, I’m needed in the numbers so some weeks I haven’t been hitting that target. Also everyone at work still classes me as a healthcare assistant, so it’s difficult to break that barrier and work in my new role
How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?
3/5
I have received support in the form of I get all the information from the lectures online, I have the contacts should I wish to seek support but I haven’t needed to use these as of yet, I have met my contact who comes to work to visit me
How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?
3/5
Once I gain the qualification I will get a NMC pin and that allows me to take my own patients, this will then allow me to perform on another level to my patients and to be a nursing associate. This will then allow me to do the top up and become a registered nurse
Are there extra-curricular activities to get involved in at your work? (For example, any social activities, sports teams, or even professional networking events.)
4/5
We have social mornings on a Thursday and we hold fares throughout the year to fundraise. We all go out as a team once a month if not on shift to team build and let of steam! We sometimes go on walks and go for meals out as a team
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend NHS to a friend?
Yes
Why?
The campus it’s self I have found to be a good layout, communication from staff members has been really good, the student hubs and restaurants are all nice and social spaces are good, the car parks are well manned and are secure. The lecturers are all knowledgeable and are fab
What tips or advice would you give to others applying to NHS?
Give it your best! Remember to relate to the questions asked, Choose your campus for ease of accessibility as it can take a while to get to! Transport isn’t possible for being such far away. Take into consideration child care. Make sure it’s the course you want to do
