I wanted to do an Apprenticeship to gain my qualifications for entry into university. I went to Connexions and said that I needed a course that I wasn't going to be in college all the time. I wanted to be out and working, and they gave me St. Helens address and said that there was a new course starting up and I should apply for it ... and so I did.

We rotate every 12 weeks so you get to learn a bit about everything. There's different wards in the hospital that we're allowed to go to and in the community. While I'm in college there's three different people I can go to for support. There's Graham, who does our coordinating, which is like our placement. And there's Joan, who's our Assessor, and she can sort out all our NVQs ... and Janine, who's college based, so she can sort out any problem we've got in college.

We've got mentors while we're in the hospital who we can turn to if we've got any problems with our placement. Because this is an access course, the college guarantees you an interview with Edgehill or John Moore's so, hopefully, I'm going to go to either one of them and do my Adult Nursing training.

We do reflective diaries in college for all your placements every day and I've been doing them for over a year now, so I'm pretty good at them now and you know what points to pick out and what's not really important. So that's going to help in the future when I'm in university.