Louise Halle has started nursing at the University College of Northern Denmark in Aalborg. During the three weeks she shares her experiences and writes about the expectations for the program, meeting with new classmates and teachers, fresher trip and curricula.

THE FIRST WEEK

First week as a nurse student is over, and I am beginning to feel like a part of the school. There are so many new impressions and faces that I must relate to me, so the weekend was a bit overdue. The tingling and the source I had in the stomach the first couple of days, is slowing, but it's all still very new and exciting, and the program is not yet fully become commonplace for me. I wonder if I am already in a few weeks when all the expectations for the training and all the butterflies in the stomach has settled, is much more relaxed in the new environment?

Mixed feelings up to study

The last weeks before the start of school has been characterized by many different emotions. At first I was a bit nervous, I wonder had come in, and the media's publication of the increasing number of applicants for the nursing did certainly not better. I was suddenly afraid they just this year where I have applied, had to reject a lot of applications. It was therefore a great relief when I stood with the letter of acceptance by hand. Prelude to teaching We have already started teaching, or at least the prelude to teaching. We deal a lot with learning styles and basic ways to get as much out of teaching on as possible. Additionally, there are many practical details and computer forma chemicals, which must be in place, and part of our hours is therefore that we guides in how computer, student and alarm functions. I am very pleased that we are about to start the actual teaching about nursing, biochemistry and anatomy / physiology, which are the subjects we first have to deal with. In some of the subjects we are divided into basic groups, and I think that's nice, because I find it easier to learn my fellow students to know when we're a small group together than when we sit 100 students to a lecture, which we also do in some subjects. So far I am satisfied with the alternation between the different types of study.

Social events are important

On Thursday were an extension of the school inaugurated, and therefore there was a party for the whole school. This week's Friday, and next week I shall at freshers' trip, so there is ample opportunity to learn the other students even better to know than I have already done in the first week. I think it's great that organized such events, it is important for me that there is a good student at school and that it is not only the professional, the emphasis is on. It is, after all, where most of my days will take place over the next three and a half years. Source: Ministry of Education