Any healthcare students?

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I'm a second year Midwifery student with chronic asthma (that's always worse in the colder months) and a heart condition (this was picked up during a routine check up in pregnancy and has never caused me any issues) currently out on a placement block and I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing or what advice to be following.
My university have cancelled all face to face teaching but advised students to stay on placement. The NHS advice is for those with underlying conditions to practice social distancing. I have a telephone appointment with my GP on Friday but I have shifts in the meantime and my university just keep telling me to speak to my GP before I decide to stop attending placement.
It's not clear whether we'll have to make up any hours missed and we only have 7 weeks annual leave a year which I generally have to work through anyway because we're always down on hours through absence, mentors being unavailable etc. I have 2 young children, no health conditions although DS9 has autism and isn't able to tell us if he's unwell so watching him like a hawk. I'm also terrified there could well be a reality that I catch this and leave them both without a mum.
I don't know whether to withdraw from placement for now until we have clearer advice? The hospital are next to useless, given us surgical masks to wear when treating anyone with symptoms (which I have and will refuse to do) but no deep cleaning after discharge so could well pick it up if they do have the virus.
Is anybody else in the same boat or have any advice?

Yeah 3rd yeah children's nurse. I have an A&E placement next week.

I've got a young toddler (I'd argue baby!) and a child with serious (but controlled) lung issues.
I'm fit and well.

Uni has been cancelled and DS2 is supposed to isolate for up to 12 weeks according to the new guidelines.

So how am I going to get the placement hours in?! 😭😭😭

@DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou it feels a bit like the universities have gone straight to protecting their staff and forgotten about the students out working in the most risky environments.
Our university have said any missed hours due to self isolation will be automatically regarded under the exceptional circumstances policy but it isn't clear whether we'll need to make these up still.
I don't want to put myself and my family at risk but I also don't want to end up not qualifying on time because I've taken myself out of placement

I just had a long email about to but it didn't say anything about isolation hours being exceptional.

Perhaps I should read back.

What uni are you with?

I'm Brighton.

I'm Bournemouth but my placement Trust is quite far from Bournemouth, they've cover several counties.

I just need someone to decide and say this is what students need to do

I feel a bit like I'm paying to be used to fill a space that actually I'm not trained to fill competently

Our course requires 2700 placements hours whereas the standard for NMC is 2400 so I'm hoping they'll do something and let us off the 300 hours if needed

We had an email late last night to say that all placements for all health science students are cancelled.

Apart from September intake - would they like to start work now.

I'm feb intake so that doesn't apply to me. I feel so fucking depressed right now.

I'm not good not working.
But I guess re rest of the world has the same problem.

Wish I knew what the nmc were going to do about hours.