DIGITAL NEWS: CONTACTING NURSES

Since we want to do a 'Live' interview about the current situation after the cancelation of the bursaries for Student Nurses, we needed relevant people to discover if this really is an issue. So, ideally we need a student nurse or more than one in order to get their opinions but it would also be helpful to get an experts opinion to get a balanced argument and discussion to see if this really is an issue for the Student Nurses.

I started by contacting the Royal College of Nursing press office. I contacted both the Media Manager and Senior Media Officer both via email and phone call but got no response. Since we were so pressed for time I decided to move on and try and contact another University.

Next I moved onto the University of London as they had an Adult nursing course. I again found the press office and contacted them. Once I called I was redirected to the main reception but was then asked to email over my request and they refused to redirect me to the nursing course leader until I had emailed before hand. I did as they asked but again, assumed that I may not get a response so began looking at other courses.

 After speaking to our tutor, we found that there was a Adult Nursing course at the University of Greenwich and the course is taught at the Medway in campus in Kent. I called their press office and asked for the course leader, they asked me to email across all the information as well but also redirected me to the leader who's name is Alison Cork. However, when I called her office it was the second lecturer who answered and told me that Alison is a very busy woman and I would have to contact via email and wait for a response.