I’m now at the point where I’ve finished half of my third year, and am now on the final leg (module).  This module involves a Literature Review and a management placement where I will be required to manage care of patients in full,  but still under supervision. Let’s skip back to what happened over the […]

To appeal to my preference for kinesthetic and visual learning, and not to mention love of painting and illustration, I started a bioscience sketchbook when lectures began, in hopes that it might aid memory recall with some of the detailed parts of the body.  Here are a few snippets. My sketches are based on ones within ‘Introduction to The Human Body’ written […]

No, I won’t give it to the teacher! As I haven’t been doing the school run since term began I’m pretty much out of touch with what’s happening.  My daughter was upset the last few days, over school.  I had no choice but to write a letter to her teacher instead of what I might normally […]

Yesterday was a day of revision, it was a Saturday and the children were at home, so too was my husband.  My hubby was ill and I was consumed with bioscience revision, mainly the respiratory and cardiovascular systems.  I was trying desperately to revise these, as time is running out to cover all the systems I need to […]

Well, two months into commencing a BSc in Adult Nursing, the thing that strikes me most is the stress I’ve been under from the get go.  Every part of my consciousness is preoccupied with what needs to be done and learnt and studied.  Having studied at this level before and not really needing to put in the same […]