Nursing School Applications Editing and Proofreading Services

"I want to be a nurse because I want to help people and I have always been a caring person." Every admissions tutor in the country has read that sentence several thousand times. It is almost certainly true. It is also indistinguishable from the applicant who will leave in first year when they discover what a twelve-hour shift on a short-staffed ward actually involves.

We edit nursing and midwifery applications — personal statements, values-based and situational responses, care experience and reflective sections, applications for return to practice and postgraduate routes, healthcare assistant and support worker applications, and the material for reapplication. Our editors work on the answer everybody gives the same way.

The account of why nursing is where an application is either credible or generic, and its failure is a motivation that could belong to anybody kind. Tutors are trying to identify who has understood the job, because attrition is their central problem. We work through these so the reason is grounded in something the applicant has actually seen rather than in a disposition, since a caring nature is claimed by every applicant and cannot be assessed; so the evidence is of the work rather than of the profession's image — the shift patterns, the physical demands, the documentation, the deaths, the relatives — because an applicant who mentions only the rewarding parts has revealed which parts they know about; so at least one unglamorous element is named specifically, given that a tutor reading about continence care or about the fourth hour of a difficult conversation knows the applicant has been present; so the difference between the roles is demonstrated where relevant, as many applicants describe a healthcare assistant's work and call it nursing, and tutors notice; so the reflection includes something the applicant found hard and how they know they can sustain it; so any claim about a specialty is one the applicant can defend, since first-year placements will contradict a romantic picture; so the values requested are evidenced in an incident rather than listed; and so the statement avoids the two sentences tutors discount entirely. Statements written this way survive the interview and the first year.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including applications, placement experience and unsuccessful attempts. We are editors rather than nurses, admissions tutors or clinicians, and we offer no view on your prospects, nursing or any application. What we can do is make the reason specific to you.