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INTER-COMPANY TRAINING & VISITS
Interview with Professionally Qualified Officer, 2Lt Nicole Wolfe
You’ve just completed the regular PQO commissioning course. What are you doing now?
I am part of the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps. Army nurses and healthcare assistants can find themselves working in a variety of settings. These can vary from NHS hospitals with military units, to ground based environments such as medical regiments and field hospitals. QARANC personnel deal with a wide range of medical situations, with civilian and military patients in the UK, to military casualties of war and conflict. Work locations vary between clinical roles, instructional positions at training bases and other interesting jobs such as recruiting.Currently Army nurses are based and deployed in the UK, Germany, Cyprus, Canada, Poland, Brunei, Nepal, Kenya and Sierra Leone.
What is the most exciting thing
you’ve done in your career to
date?
Unfortunately this is completely
non-military, but I had the
experience to go to the Gambia
and spend a month working in a
healthcare centre where I got to
deliver a baby. This was absolutely fascinating as the women get absolutely no pain relief and are amazing.
Have you found that the skills and experiences you’ve gained in the CUOTC have come in useful as a regular officer? The skills that I learnt at CUOTC have helped me, especially during my time at Sandhurst as it
2Lt Wolfe passing out parade
Burns night mess event
enabled me to help my peers when they were struggling. It also gave me the underpinning knowledge of what the Army is all about and how officers should act. I will take forward the
knowledge and skills that I learnt at CUOTC into my future career and use them to underpin what I do.
What advice would you give to CUOTC officer cadets considering taking on the challenge of either a Regular or Reserve commission?
For those that want to gain a commission I would say go for it. The army is a rewarding organisation and one everyone should be proud to be part of. As I said earlier, the key is to be physically and mentally prepared for the commissioning course but the main thing is to enjoy it while your there as it is an experience of a lifetime.
2Lt Wolfe, QARANC
It also gave me the underpinning knowledge of what the Army is all about...
Final exercise at RMAS
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