Around 1200 student nurses and midwives from the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) are joining the NHS frontline fight against coronavirus.They will be putting their skills to the use in the COVID-19 battle – and they can’t wait to get started.Third-year nursing student Amanda Beckett, from Motherwell, will be working with a community nursing team, caring for people in their homes.Amanda said: “For me, there really was no question of whether I would opt in or not.
I was all for it.“To be able to say that before I had even graduated as a nurse, I signed up to work to support the nation’s effort to fight this pandemic – this is momentous to me.“I recently nursed a patient who had volunteered when they finished nursing training to work