HV Terri Wright shares her insights into accessing research careers within nursing, while highlighting the benefits of professional support and embracing the unexpected.
My nursing career began at Chesterfield Royal Hospital in Derbyshire in 2005. My cohort was the first student nurse intake there for 50 years. When I qualified in 2008, jobs were scarce and I was pleased to start work as a neonatal nurse at Jessop neonatal unit in Sheffield. Three years later, the government launched a ‘call to action’ plan to increase health visitors’ numbers (Department of Health, 2011). I gained a place on Sheffield Hallam University’s SCPHN course and have worked in the Sheffield 0-19 service ever since (11 years)…
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Terri Wright is a health visitor with Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
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