 Thank you for watching. I just wanted to do a quick vlog all about what you're going to need as a student nurse during your nursing studies. This is Joey. Say hi Joey. Say hi. That's rude. Joey wanted to come up and say hello to everybody. This is our dog and he's beautiful. I love him. He's not feeling too good at the minute. He's got bad legs so he's been a bit needy and a bit cuddly and he wants lots of love. So he's going to help with the video apparently. So firstly I wanted to talk you through stationery. So during your nursing studies you're going to need to write so much notes. Loads and loads of notes in your lectures, at home when you're revising. You think so? Yeah? Oh god. He thinks so too. So my advice is get loads of stationery. Get as many colours as you can. Loads of colours if you like. I mean if you don't like that sort of thing don't get them obviously. But I like to colour things in. I like to do door. I like to highlight things. I like to do little bubbles. I've got a pencil case as well full of felt tips. Different coloured bicks. These bicks are amazing. There's a pack of eight but there's four different colours. There's pink, purple, green and blue and it's a pack of eight. Oh big. I love them. They're the best things to ever write with. So get yourself some good pens and they don't have to be expensive. I say good pens but they don't have to be expensive. You can go to Poundland and get them. You can go to Wilkinson. I get a lot of my stuff from Wilkinson to be honest because it's so cheap. I've got this pad. It's got little dividers in so you can section all of your work. That's really good so you can put different modules into different sections. You know because you've got bits and notes everywhere. It's good to keep all of your notes in one place in one folder. And that I got that from B&M's I think. Was it B&M's? I think it was B&M's for like £2. It doesn't have to be expensive at all. People always rush out and think oh we need to get the best things but no. They're just going to be writing. Just you know get what it's cheap and cheerful. We are student nurses. We can't afford these things. My next thing is get a load of folders. I've got four of these so far. I'm just in second year. I've had one for each module. So yeah and some dividers for your folders. So I've got my folder. I've got my little dividers again. It just it really helps to section everything off. Get yourself some plastic wallets as well to put all your power point slides in if you print those off. If you don't that's fine. They've saved my life. You've got to save some Sainsbury's. I think they were like £1.99 or something for £100. You could probably get them cheap on eBay as well. So make sure you look on eBay. Flashcards. Flashcards are the best thing I ever purchased. Get yourself some flashcards. I got these. These flashcards. I got these off eBay and it was I think £2 for £100. Was it £2 for £100? Something like £2 for £100 with free postage. That's all I've got left from £100 because I've used them all from my revision session, this module. But it just depends how you like to work. If you like things in colors and things, get a load of colors, highlighters really helps highlight things out. If you like writing in black and white, just paper, black pen. It's up to you. It depends how you study and what you're going to need. But you're definitely going to need to make notes. There's no doubt about it. So get your pens, get your paper. It doesn't have to be expensive. You can get it really cheap. Also I've got a pad as well that I got from Wilkinsons and I think it was £99 for some A4 rolled pad. Just get a couple of those. You're going to need it. So there you go. Next top tip is get yourself some comfy comfy comfy comfy shoes. They have to be all black. This isn't for university. This is for your placement. So for your placement, you need comfy shoes. They have to be all black. I think you can wear navy as well. They've got to be but check your university's guidelines about footwear because each university might have different things. But I know it's standard. You should have leather shoes that cover your whole foot and they've got to be black. These are the ones I've got. These are from Clarks. They're called Unloop. And if you go online, they are a bit expensive. They're £65 online through Clarks. But if you've got a local outlet or factory near you, I know there's one in Birmingham at Perry Bar. This is where I got mine from. They're £45. I've still got the label inside. £45. That is all they are. And that still sounds expensive. But these will last you for like the whole three years and beyond because they're good quality. They're so comfortable. These are the comfiest things I've ever worn. They're like wearing trainers. Your feet are going to be in heaven on the boards doing a 12 hour shift in these. But as long as you don't have to pay that price, if you don't want to, if you haven't got the money, I mean throughout first year, I used my HCA shoes. I couldn't afford it. I didn't have the money for all these new shoes. But I did some extra bank shifts. I've managed to get myself a bargain £45 shoes. But these are called Unloops. I will put the link below so that you can go and have a look. But as long as your shoes are black, cover your feet, leather, they have to be that way because you could drop a needle on your foot. You don't want that going into your foot. You could be empty in a catheter and the catheter has gone all over your foot. Your feces, urine, blood, you just don't know what's going to drop on your feet. So it's better to have your foot protective than have it go through onto your foot. And it's a bit grim, really, isn't it? So as you can see, I have a whole pile of books. And I'm not going to lie, I haven't used any of them. I'm not going to lie. I've got so many books and I got them from friends. I've got them from eBay and Amazon. But I mean, I got most of them from friends, like secondhand from friends. If you go online, there's a couple of Facebook groups as well. If you go on the nurse and Facebook groups, people are giving them away. But to be honest, for me personally, I can't sit and read from a book and learn that way. I prefer to watch a YouTube video. I like to go through my revision notes and things from lectures. I prefer to Google things, proper websites, legit websites, just physiology sites. The Khan Academy is fantastic. I'm going to put the links below. But do you know what? I have four books that I have read and I love. And the one you will use is your Bible and this is it. This is your Bible, the BNF. My work, they got a whole load of new BNFs in. So they gave me their old one, which I'm very grateful for. And if you go into any pharmacy, tell them you're a student nurse and ask them if they've got any old BNFs that you could have and they will give you it for free. So they've always got, they get updated every single year. So this BNF is full. It's the British National Formulae, Formulae, Formulae. It's for all your medications. Every single medication is in there and you will need that throughout. This is the only thing that I've used as my Bible. If you take anything away from this video, get yourself this. The next one that I really, really love is this one. Again, I'll put the links below to all these things. This is amazing. It just breaks everything down so simple. It's all about drugs, how they work and the body, the physiology of it all and everything. It's fantastic. This, again, is just been a lifesaver. So that combined with that, because you need that to pass your course. And then what else? Oh, this one. This one is amazing. An Atty and Physiology coloring book and it does, it really helped me to remember the sections and everything. It's fantastic. Get yourself one of those as well. Again, links are going to be below for all of this. The next book I have, my very last book, this one. The Student Nurses Guide to Successful. Successful. Successful. I can't even read. Reflection. And this is by one of our lecturers at BCU called Nicola Clark and she's just fantastic. We had a lecture with her for our very first assignment and she was just brilliant and she's brought out this book about all about reflection and of highlighted things. This is fantastic because you're going to need to reflect. When you qualify, it's NMC requirement that you do a reflection every single year as part of your revalidation. So you will need to reflect. You will need this, not this particular one, but this one is fantastic. It's simple. She's broken it down so much. She's put in little exercises. She's put in exercises for you to do and complete. You have to answer some questions, so it really helps you understand all about reflection and how to be successful at reflection. And now this, I got this of Amazon. I think it was reduced from like £50 to a fiver. It's a manual blood pressure set and it all fits in this little tiny leather case and it's fantastic. It's the best thing that I've ever bought and it's really, really helped me learn how to do a manual blood pressure. You've got the cuff, the cuff there with the little gauge on it. You've got your stethoscope. So there it is. You've got your stethoscope. You've got your blood pressure bump. It's just amazing because you are going to have to, if you're going to BCU, I don't know about other universities, but one of the exams is you have to do a manual blood pressure. You get marked on it so get one of those. It's the best thing I ever bought and if you really, really, really have some money to spend, go and buy yourself a Littman telescope because that is the best stethoscope, the best stethoscope I've ever had and luckily I didn't buy it because I've got a lovely partner who bought me mine for me a year ago from her birthday and they're going to show you it now. Here it is. This is my Littman stethoscope and it's beautiful. I was laughing because I remembered that I put a little badge among my GP placement and we've got these stickers. I was brave today. I put that in there but this is my stethoscope. It's pink. It's got a little rainbow on it. It's engraved. Just absolutely. It's beautiful and now I'm on my GP placement. I can use it. I use it all the time. I take the placement with me and I just love it. It's so nice. It's beautiful. Now for university you will have a uniform. I think every single university does this. You have to have a uniform, student nurse uniform. When you go out on your placement they will give you this. It's free. I get four uniforms. They're from City University. They give us four uniforms. I'm going to show you my uniform now. This is my uniform. What you'll need for placement as well a FOD watch and you can get those really really cheap online 99p or something. Make sure you've got yourself a FOD watch. Get yourself a little notepad for when you're out on placement just to write notes in as you go along. I've got like where the ECGs should go. This is my uniform. Ours is white which is a nightmare to keep clean but luckily it's still clean. I'm second year now. I wash it on 90 and I put varnish in the wash. I've got navy blue trousers, my black shoes. I've got two stripes because I'm in second year so I've got the red one for first year, blue one for second year and then I'll have another blue one when I get to third year which I'm really excited for. So yeah so this is it. I've took my earrings out. I do have a little silver studs which I put in sometimes. I have a nose ring but I take that out for placement obviously. I put my hair in a little bun, sometimes two buns but as long as your hair's off your collar it's up, it's out the way, it's professional, it's not going to drop into anything. It'll be all right. My next top tip is get yourself some hand cream because you're constantly washing your hands, alcohol gel on your hands, they're going to get red, they're going to get sore, they're going to get dry. It's a lovely life as a student nurse. I've got this salted coconut hand scrub from Lush and it's amazing. It makes your hands feel like they've just come out as far. Obviously if you've got any eczema or dermatitis or anything like that you might just have to check what you can use. I think you can take your own bottles of dermal and things to wash your hands with if you've got skin problems that's fine. They're quite lenient like that but if you haven't and you can use products like this salted coconut hand scrub from Lush is amazing. They do a coconut hand cream as well. I've run out but the coconut hand cream is so good and if you just pop into Lush and ask them and just say just some advice as a student nurse what's good for your hands. They will advise you, they're really good, they'll point you in that direction. If that fails and you don't want to go to Lush there's other products obviously available. You can just get some cheap hand creams from Boots or Superdrug. Also a hemp cream, hemp cream is really good for your hands. Sometimes I'll put it on before I'll wash my hands just to protect my hands and then I'll wash my hands and it makes me feel better I suppose but sometimes I do that but there are hemp creams out there that are really good for your hands and they're not so greasy so just look for a non-greasy hand cream and you'll be sorted. Another thing you might need is a good bag. I mean I personally prefer to have a backpack because it's even on your shoulders, put everything in, no stress. Have a big enough bag to put all your books in, put your laptop if you have a laptop in, iPad, anything like that. Now I've got so many backpacks because I love them so much. I've got blue, I've got pink, I've got red, I've got white. But this is my uni backpack. I got mine from Kavkitsyn. This was a Christmas present but you can get them really cheap in the sale and it has a little section at the back to put your laptop, you just put your laptop and any papers in to the substrate and it's padded. And then this monster of a bag is my placement bag because when you go to placement you're not supposed to wear your uniform so I wanted a big enough bag to put all my uniform in, put my lunch in. It needs to be big to be honest. And again in there you've got a section. I usually fold my uniform top so it's neat and I put it in there so it keeps it straight. And yeah this one was from, where was it from? Oh it was from Costco. I got this from Costco for like a tenner. It was a bargain. You could probably find it on eBay. Hi Sierra, hi Sierra. I don't even know what type of bag it is but it's padded as well. The arms are padded. It's got a bit for your mobile. This is so good for placement. I really really love it. It's one of my favourites. But again it's up to you. Personal preference. What you're comfortable with but you will need a bag for university either way. You might already have one. I mean don't go and buy a new one if you've already got one that you can use. There's no point. Oh I've completely forgot to add this into my video so I'm just doing this quickly now. So if you haven't heard of this company the happy planner company links below. Please have a look because they're incredible and look what you get. So you get this, sorry it's a bit of a mess. I should have organised this better. Nursing is a work of heart bag with a match and lanyard. It says there's that same thing. It's just beautiful. You get the reflective nursing journal which is exactly what it says on the book, a reflection journal. And this is amazing. A week to view planner for nursing students is fantastic. Let me just have a look. So you have your course details. You've got useful contacts. And then you'll have your list, your calendar list for you to write things in. What you're doing your home life to do list. All of that. At the back you've got some stickers. How exciting. Everyone loves the stickers surely. So you can take them out, put them in. This bit's laminated. So that's your revision guide. So it's laminated so you can use a white marker. Meal plan, what you're going to have. You've got notes at the back. You've got beautiful quotes throughout the book. You've got notes. That's my important dates that I wrote there. You've got placement learning objectives. I filled that in. That's my placement learning objectives. It was the most objectives I've ever had because I'm a GP placement. I wanted to learn so much. Mileage. You've got financial budget guides. Got childcare hour charts. You can keep track of your childcare if you have children. Your reference lists. So you've got the books I'll read. So you can put the authors. Keep your references safe. Assignment details. Assignment results. You can put that in there. Placement hours completed. There's just so much. Placement hours completed. Another amazing quote. The quotes are beautiful if you read them. And then you've got this. You get this little paper week to view planner. You put the dates and what you're doing that week. I usually have that there on my desk. And then you've got these milestone cards which are just amazing and I wish I had these before I started my nursing because they're so good. And if you like to post things on social media and take pictures, this is amazing. You can write your notes on the back of them. So here we are. Today I need more coffee. Someday you will get that. Today I passed year three. I can't wait to put that one on. Today I passed year two. Today I passed year. Oh no, just today I passed. Sorry. Empowered a patient which used to do every day. But they're just fantastic and they're a great present for somebody if anybody is out there wanting a present or looking for a present for someone that's a student nurse. These are fantastic. They are so good and they really made my day. So this is a whole pack. This set comes together but you can also buy them separately if you don't want any of the others. And it's just fantastic. It'd make a perfect gift for someone. If you're watching this and you're thinking what do I get a student nurse? This is amazing. It's the best thing ever and I really love it. And that's just go and check them out. So that's it. That's everything I know that I need for my student nurse journey so far. If anyone else is watching this and they think oh she's got to say this or you know I use this but she doesn't use that. Please comment. Let people know. Comment below. I'd love to hear what you use and what you find good. Especially with the hand creams and things. If you've got any advice for hand creams, stationary bags, anything like that. Comment below. Let's help each other out. We're all student nurses. We're all in this together. And always remember to go cheap. Don't go expensive. Get as cheap as possible. Search eBay, search Amazon. Scour Facebook groups as well for freebies like the books. Oh this one. I didn't show you this one. Sorry. So this Ross and Wilson book. Apart from me and probably one of the students. Everybody else uses this. Everyone I've spoke to. Anyone on Facebook group sites they always recommend the Ross and Wilson Anatomy Physiology book. And it is good. It's not that it's not good. That's why I don't use it. I just prefer to go online and use physiology sites and YouTube videos. That's just my personal preference. So go and get yourself Ross and Wilson Anatomy Physiology. If you really want a good physiology book that's the one to have. So that's it. I mean I've got no more advice. If anyone else has got any advice please comment below. If I've missed anything out comment below. It's really good to hear from other students. I love watching other people's YouTube videos. So if you're a student nurse comment below. I need to watch your videos. And just yeah I hope someone's found this video useful. Good luck with your nursing studies. It's going to be amazing. If you've got any questions comment, like, follow. Go find me on Twitter, message me and I shall speak to you all soon.