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Student Staff Nurse (RGN)
- Posted By: RAF Coventry
- Address:
- Contact: 02476520641
- Date Posted: 21st Nov 2008
- Salary: £16,200
- Location: Coventry
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- Views Since Posting: 18
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Toni Williams’s story...
My role
‘Each year, we complete three university terms and three clinical placements. At the moment, I’m at the medical centre in RAF Cranwell with a practice nurse, but most of the placements are in secondary care.
‘I spent a few months on the orthopaedic ward at Edith Cavell Hospital in Peterborough. My patients were very varied – from elderly people undergoing hip operations, to young Service people with sports injuries. As a nurse, you prepare them physically and psychologically for an operation, then make sure they’re stable when they come back from theatre.’
My day
‘Eighty per cent of the time, you’re doing the same as your NHS counterparts – but for the other 20 per cent, you could be doing anything, anywhere in the world. You could be in a field hospital in Afghanistan, on a maternity ward in Cyprus, or in a medical centre in the Falkland Islands. Wherever the RAF is, medical support is needed.’
My experiences
‘As an RAF Student Nurse, I receive the same training as any student nurse, but I’m part of the Service as well. Like everyone in the RAF, I did the recruit training course at RAF Halton. The course includes weapons training, which might seem odd for a nurse, but imagine if you were deployed to a field hospital in a war zone. You’d need to be able to defend yourself and your patients – otherwise you’d be taking someone away from a combat role.’
My life
‘I’ll be friends for life with the other Student Nurses. There are 55 of us in our year, ranging in age from 18 to 40. Since the course began, we’ve worked together, studied together, socialised together – we even go on holiday together.’
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