Student Ambassador useful resources
Work within the parameters of your role
Signposting and support
Protect your own health and wellbeing by maintaining and health work/life balance. Ask for support when required. Act as a role model for student members:
- ºÚÁÏÍø Library subject guide - Wellbeing, self care and resilience
- The Student Nurse Handbook (available from the ºÚÁÏÍø Library)
Connecting and campaigning
Organise opportunities to be visible and share the scope of your role with local student members, branch, forum and the Students' Committee:
Questioning and influencing
Promote the ºÚÁÏÍø and recruit student members, encouraging them to become and remain active with the ºÚÁÏÍø throughout their nursing career:
Promote equality of opportunity and inclusion for all ºÚÁÏÍø student members
Signposting and supporting
Signpost student members to the ºÚÁÏÍø inclusion strategy and to seek expert ºÚÁÏÍø advice if they feel that they have been treated unfairly:
- ºÚÁÏÍø Diversity and Inclusion
- Get help from the ºÚÁÏÍø: Discrimination advice
- Get help from the ºÚÁÏÍø: Bullying and harassment advice
Connecting and campaigning
Connect with student members and give them the opportunity to share their experiences of equality and inclusion and contribute towards ºÚÁÏÍø campaigns:
- Get involved: campaign with us
- ºÚÁÏÍø Peer Support Service - information for students
- ºÚÁÏÍø Inclusion Café
Questioning and influencing
Share examples of good and poor practice and organisational culture with the local branch/office to influence the wider ºÚÁÏÍø inclusion agenda:
Organise student members to engage with the work of the ºÚÁÏÍø on local and national levels
Signposting and supporting
Support students to develop networks so that they can help each other through challenging aspects of their course and signpost to national events:
- ºÚÁÏÍø Bulletin: Ten top tips for using social media
- ºÚÁÏÍø news and events
- ºÚÁÏÍø membership information for Newly Registered Nurses
Connecting and campaigning
Encourage student members to engage in wider ºÚÁÏÍø campaigns and events. Organise groups of members, with the support of ºÚÁÏÍø staff, to attend ºÚÁÏÍø Congress:
- Get involved: campaign with us
- ºÚÁÏÍø Students magazine: Do not be afraid to use your voice
- ºÚÁÏÍø Staffing for safe and effective care campaign
- ºÚÁÏÍø Students magazine: We can roar loudly
Questioning and influencing
Encourage student members to question and influence on student related issues by networking with local branches and forums to influence the Congress agenda:
Empower student members to access and use information and advice appropriately
Signposting and supporting
Direct student members to current and credible sources of information and resources to support their nursing education and practice experience:
Connecting and campaigning
Promote the professional services of the ºÚÁÏÍø Libraries and encourage student members to attend local events:
- ºÚÁÏÍø Library
- ºÚÁÏÍø Library subject guide: Critical appraisal
- ºÚÁÏÍø news and events
- Get involved with your country or region
Questioning and influencing
Use social media to encourage members to share their feedback on the value of ºÚÁÏÍø resources and generate ideas of how they could be developed further:
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- ºÚÁÏÍø Libraries and
- ºÚÁÏÍø Knowledge
Most countries, regions, branches and forums also have their own social media accounts.
Develop and support partnership working between the ºÚÁÏÍø and other stakeholders, sharing intelligence and promoting effective communication
Signposting and supporting
Signpost student members to their local branch and professional forums to share experience and gain support from other members:
- Get involved with ºÚÁÏÍø forums
- Get involved with your country or region
- Follow and engage with relevant ºÚÁÏÍø social media accounts
Connecting and campaigning
Develop networks and connections with student members to enhance effective communication and work collectively:
- (Facebook)
- Follow and engage with relevant ºÚÁÏÍø social media accounts
- ºÚÁÏÍø Students magazine: We can roar loudly
Questioning and influencing
Create a link between the university, local ºÚÁÏÍø office, branch and student members to share intelligence and promote positive partnership working:
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