Polly Bowman Email and Phone Number

Newly Qualified Staff Nurse.Band 5 Staff Nurse.

- Selected to be a Nursing Student Peer Mentor Leader post a year volunteering as a Nursing Student Peer Mentor.- Role divided into planning sessions to support both first year Student Nurses and Peer Mentors.- Motivating and leading Peer Mentors to support their groups of first year Student Nurses.

- Provider of support and guidance to a group of first year Student Nurses.- Selected for the role in the 2nd year of my Nursing Degree.

- Elected by my peers as the Nursing (Adult) BSc Hons Course Representative in the second year of my degree.- Responsible for continuously bridging the gap between Nursing Students and the School of Health Sciences staff members.- Discussions and presentations at regular meetings to discuss issues and how to innovate the Nursing (Adult) BSc Hons degree further.

- Showcasing nursing as a profession and the University of Nottingham School of Health Sciences at various Open Days. - Leading tours of future potential Nursing Students around the University of Nottingham.- Nominated Speaker at Open Days to lecture theatres of potential and current Nursing Students.

Agency Care Support Worker - Undertaken in addition to Year 2/3 of Nursing Degree.

- Applied and succeeded to be placed as a Student Nurse at Rampton High Secure Hospital.- Post training, I was able to join the Medical Team, attending to both routine and emergency clinical cases with Registered Nurses and Advanced Nurse Practitioners.

- Experiencing and working within the acute medical system in Kandy, Sri Lanka.- Predominantly Emergency Medicine, Acute Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynaecology.- Overcoming language barriers and managing with limited resources to assist to provide quality care to vast numbers of patients.