After a successful week in the East Midlands we spent a day in North Wales today, Bangor University in Wrexham to be exact! We had a fantastic day, more than 80 visitors came to see us including a handful of lecturers and a group of midwifery students. We ran FOUR seminars! Dignity, NMC Pre-reg Review, CV and Interview Techniques and Accountability, some students took the day off placement to come and attend all four which was great for us!
We found the majority of students at Bangor already knew about our online library so we had less demonstrations and more discussions about how their courses were going and the potential closure of the Wrexham site.
Professor Betty Kershaw presented three students with certificates for a new e-learning package on infection control which sounded like a fantastic course, all the students said they really enjoyed it.
The staff at the university looked after us so well! We were provided with lunch which was delicious and they'd put posters and flyers up everywhere to advertise out visit. They've asked if we would visit their site in Bangor so hopefully we will be able to arrange that soon.
We're looking forward to a good couple of days in the South West, our Communications Officer Tracey Roberts has been working really hard to get some local MPs and Counsellors along and we will have regional RCN staff along to support us as well, so all we're missing is you students!
We're hoping to bring the bus to an upcoming conference; Positive Choices in Leeds on the 9th April, around 500 Learning Disability nursing students should be in attendance so we can't wait! This is in the almost-definite-stages, just a few things to sort out and then we should be able to confirm the visit.
Do keep an eye on the RCN website for new bookings in your area, we have definite sites for our week in the Yorkshire & the Humber region now and those for our Scotland week will be finalised soon: www.rcn.org.uk/studentbus
Monday, 8 February 2010
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