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From Cathedral To Castle

A personal exploration of an ancient Cornish river.

C.H.Stocker 2008

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Sunny Corner, Truro River

Malpas, at the meeting of the Tresillian and Truro Rivers

Boathouse - St.Just Creek

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Student Nurse

The First Ten Years!

C.H.Stocker 2008

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Introduction

Welcome to my book! If you've read this far no doubt you are either about to start your training; have just started your training or even are a trained nurse but haven't written an essay in years. Whoever you are, you're more than welcome and believe me when I say I have been in all of your positions at one time or another!

Essay writing is a headache to everyone - even the poor people who have to mark them. Please note however, in this book I will not teach you how to write an essay. My aim is to show you essays that have passed on the first attempt, thus please be assured every essay within this book has had a pass mark.

I joined the NHS first as a domestic way back in 1987. Maybe not something many nurses would admit to but I feel proud to have started on the “shop floor” so to speak. In 1991 after a brief flirtation with running my own business I started work as an Auxiliary Nurse on a Medical Ward treating anything from self harm patients to cardiac patients. It was a great start to my career and I look back at that time with much fondness.
I enrolled onto the Health Care Assistant (HCA) training as soon as I could and progressed through the various National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) that were available to me at the time. I also undertook any extra responsibilities and study that I could.

In 1998 I commenced my nurse training at a local university. I was 29 years old, hadn't written a proper essay in over ten years and at that time considered one of the older students in my cohort. I had to face essay writing from scratch, something I struggled with for quite a while. Something that helped me was when a kind colleague lent me several of her previous essays to see how she had presented them and that gave me a framework to use with my own work. I emphasis here that I used this colleague's work as guidance and that is what I would ask you to do as you read this book. The essays contained within this books pages are for guidance only any form of plagiarism will not be tolerated by any university or myself! The referencing is via the Harvard System (Wikipedia 2008) and of course all refernces to my tutors and my university numbers as well as dates have been understandably removed.

I qualified in 2001 and since then have worked mostly with acutely ill stroke patients. It has been a good time for me and I unmistakably recognise in my students the same problems I faced many years before. The help I was offered by others clearly helped me become the nurse I am today and I concluded I could do the same for the learners I was guiding. Therefore enclosed within this book, are a selection of some of my assignments over the last ten years. I have printed them to assist you to learn how an essay is started, developed and of course concluded. Please read my book, disagree with anything written if you want. That's your decision and it proves you're reading! And that is my final point. To pass your essays you must read, read and read more. Without the ability to research a project your studies will be limited.

So best of luck with your studies! I hope my essays assist you, should you have any comments please email at stocker.c@btopenworld.com and I'll try to use your comments for my next book.
C.H.Stocker Dip HE (Nursing), R.N.

Quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_referencing. Accessed 23/03/08.