As a Student Nurse, Sam recognised the importance of a community of support to enrich the experience of University life and was instrumental in creating the Hull Nursing Society. The society supports student nurses from all fields, cohorts and programmes by providing advice on University life, placements, general health and wellbeing as well as organising events.
Sharon Hopton, Programme Director for Learning Disability Nursing who nominated Sam for the award, said: “Sam identified that there was the potential to develop a society specifically for nursing students from all fields and programmes. The overall aim of the society being to connect nursing students by creating an interdisciplinary community of support.
“The COVID-19 pandemic impacted on the early stages of developing this society, however, this did not deter Sam, in fact it became more evident that this society would enable nursing students to connect and feel supported by each other during these unprecedented and challenging times.