What could you achieve with a career in primary care nursing?

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5/Grade 9-10 and Grade 11-12 health education and careers education.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks (UK):
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Julia Lukewich, from Memorial University in Canada, and Professor Liz Halcomb, from the University of Wollongong in Australia, who are encouraging students to consider a career in primary care nursing.

• This resource also contains interviews with Julia and Liz and offers an insight into careers in primary care nursing. If your students have questions for Julia and Liz, they can send them through the Futurum Careers website.

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Julia and Liz’s research and challenges them to design an exhibit for a careers fair to promote careers in primary care nursing to their classmates.

• The article and activity sheet are also available in French from the Futurum website.

This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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