Student Nurses: Capturing their views and aspirations around patient care

At the end of April 2012 a cross-section of students from the University of Chester were interviewed in order to gather a range of views from our next generation of nurses. These interviews were recorded as part of NHS North West’s work around Energise for Excellence (E4E) which is the ‘call to action’ of at least 200,000 nurses, midwives and health visitors across the country to take ownership of improving patient care whilst reducing costs.Questions were centred on students’ opinions in regards to their own nursing careers as well as the NHS as a whole, and what could be done to improve the health service.