Nursing Students

claireiom

Hi

Just wondered if anyone was studying nursing?

I have applied for Septembers intake and was just wondering how you all find living on your bursary along with paying bills and travel etc???

I have done a budget plan (thanks Martin) to try and ensure that I will know what is coming in and out but it still looks like I will have to get a part time job to enable me to have any money for 'me' each month. Does anyone else have any advice on how to hold everything down and do placements too?

Thanks

john.xs

you can do agency or bank nursing as the students i have come across have loads of free time/ holidays/down time to lecturers cancelling or lectures being so crap that they werent worth turning up for in the first place.

emma_b_4

hiya

im a student nurse, i get basic standard bursary of 486 every mth, well every 3rd friday, so some months are 5weeks arrrrrrr

anyway yes you do sometimes get time off but depend on uni u r at, my mate gets hardly any time off but our uni have given us 6week off for easter, but this does include revision time for our exams in may. i have worked the last 2weeks though to get some ££, i also bsit once a week too. my mate works at tesco and another works in a bar, most ppl do some kind of work, but a flexi job is best as your ours change so much at uni and pment

it is hard managing ont eh bursary but its possible. my oh pays the bills and we share the bursary...we also have a odraft studen account which we dip into.

im sure you will manage, my biggest tip would be do online banking so b4 you go shopping you know whats in the bank!saved us a fortune in charges and feel so in control of our money now

good luck and let us know how you get on!
in child branch at huddersfield, pregnant though so having a year out from sept, not very moneysaving i know, was a complete suprise but hey its not all bad im coming round to the idea now...

aurora_borealis_2

my daughter does a nursing course in brighton and even though I pay her accommodation she's always skint... the bursary's a bit of a joke really...

Some of her mates do agency work but its hard work and they're always knackered (also, although the experience is good, you might get fed up of being on the ward all of the time.). The best thing to do is to get a bar job once or twice a week which gives you a bit of a social life aswell. Also, look up being a 'mystery shopper' you get a free night out and a £20 or summat for reviewing places. Also, depending on what the item is, you get to keep it.

Good luck in your course! And trust me start on 'the file' early or it'll be hanging over you. Everything else is easy peasy.

emma_b_4

the file.. do you mean portfolio?
you got me panciking now!
ive not done much on mine!