Career Inspiration: Children's Nursing
You may already know what career you’re aiming for, but have you considered the day-to-day realities of the job you think you want? HotCourses talks to paediatric nurse Rachel Buttle about the pros and cons of working in a busy ward at Great Ormond Street hospital… Job description: I work on a children’s neurology day unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Children come to our ward for planned investigations to help the doctors find a diagnosis. Vocational qualifications route that you took: I studied for a DipHE in Nursing (Child Branch). ...

Tips and Traps for the First year
We at Hotcourses have our fair share of university experiences between us, so here are some things we wish we’d read before we started the first year of University First year work ethic Being a student requires more careful time management than at school – as well as having lectures scattered all over your timetable, you will be expected to spend a lot of study hours reading and doing assignments, and you will have to organise all this yourself. Whilst this can seem like an annoying distraction from the important first year business of making friends and generally having a good time, it’ll...