"Overall brilliant care"

Overall the care offered by the team is brilliant under those hard circumstances where there is a shortage of staff, depending on bank staff who, in most cases, have little rapport with the patients. Having said that it doesn’t mean that all things are rosy, for example with the fact that the nurses value their ‘6 cs’ . to my observation paper work is keeping the nurses away from fulfilling some of them like compassion.

As regards to learning environment, the first week can be really difficult, especially where the mentor works a different shift from that of a student. Some staff can be difficult to approach; there’s no particular system for students but there was a lot to learn and experience was good; and the mentor was supportive when we met.