Nurses are people who look after you when you’re feeling unwell and help you to get better. Studying nursing at university teaches you all the skills that you need to be a good nurse – you would learn all about the human body and different illnesses, how to give people medications and injections, how to take down their medical history to help doctors find out what is wrong with them and how to make sure everywhere is kept clean and sterile to stop illnesses spreading.

As well as attending lectures, you would spend a lot of time based in hospitals or clinics, to practice what you are learning on real patients. You can also choose to specialise into a type of nursing – you might want to work with adults, children or people with learning disabilities. Nurses also have the opportunity to study further and go on to specialise in midwifery, which is looking after pregnant mothers and babies, or to become a paramedic.

Listen to our student nurse Chloe to find out more about being a Nursing student at the University of Liverpool!