Wonder if there is anyone who can give me some advice for DD2 who is wanting to do some kind of nursing after her A levels. She is currently in Y12 and is studying A level Biology, Health and Social Care, Textiles and Sociology.
My cousin trained as a SRN at Jimmy's in Leeds many, many years ago, and went on to become a Sister before managing a series of Nursing Homes. DD would love to train somewhere like this (or at least in a big teaching hospital) but I understand that nowadays Nursing is a University degree and is somehow linked to Hospital (rather than doing all your training there?) In addition, I believe that rather than doing a general nursing qualification and then deciding what to specialise in you have to decide before you apply as to whether you are doing Elderly, Mental Health, etc? Is this correct? DD thinks she might like to work with mentally handicapped children and I had initially suggested she become a qualified nurse as she might discover she liked another type of nursing more, and that I thought she could then specialise in Mental Handicap if she wanted to. I am obviously out of date and know little about the type of career and ways into it that she is interested in. Is there a better way of qualifying to work with handicapped children? She definitely doesn't want to teach - much more on the caring side. Any help or suggestions gratefully received!
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