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STUDENT MATT SAYS COVID-19 TAUGHT HIM WHAT IT REALLY MEANS TO BE A NURSE
Matt was recently awarded ‘Most Inspirational Student Nurse of the Year’ in the prestigious Nursing Times (2020 Awards).
Swansea University was founded in 1920 to respond to the needs of our local and wider community, through research, through innovation: making a difference has been part of our culture for over 100 years. Recent events have had a great impact on us all, but we believe there is much we have learnt from our situation, and many positive outcomes. We have discovered that we are able to adapt – not just sufficiently, but incredibly well – to new ways of studying, working, and living. We have discovered also how resilient we are to change, and we have had the opportunity to implement many flexible practices at the University that we believe are for the better, for our students and for our entire university community. We are excited to see what the future holds, and we are entirely committed to making the Swansea University experience a positive and rewarding one for all our students.
Over 1000 students from the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science volunteered to help health service colleagues during the pandemic: • Final year medical students were inducted as doctors after the General Medical Council offered early provisional registration • 662 nursing students were placed within health boards • The entire third year of the
University’s midwifery degree assisted qualified midwives
• At least 101 paramedic students signed up to work with the Welsh Ambulance Service
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