About Lauren
A calmer kind of nursing revision, shaped by design training and real student life.
I graduated with a first class in photography in 2021, then completed a PgCert in Medical Illustration in 2023. Now I'm back studying as a children's nursing student, building the kind of revision support I kept wishing already existed.
The Nurse Lab started because so many study resources felt harder to use than they needed to be. Not always wrong. Just noisy, cluttered, or written in a way that did not help when your head was already full.
So this site is me building something steadier: revision pages, tools, and guides that feel calm, useful, and trustworthy right before placement, OSCE practice, or a last-minute refresh.
The route here
The timeline looks neat on paper.
Photography and medical illustration both trained me to think about attention, hierarchy, and what happens when important information is technically there but still hard to take in.
When I moved into nursing training, that same frustration kept showing up in revision support. Good material was often hidden behind awkward layouts, vague wording, or too much visual noise.
The Nurse Lab grew out of trying to fix that for myself first, then realising other students wanted the same thing: resources that feel practical, calm, and worth opening again.
"If a page is confusing, too busy, or trying too hard, it gets in the way of the learning."
Timeline
2021
Graduated with a first class in photography
That training taught me to care about composition, clarity, and what a person actually notices first when they are looking at a page.
2023
Completed a PgCert in medical illustration
I spent more time translating clinical information into visuals and wording that make sense quickly, especially when the subject matter is dense.
After that
Moved toward healthcare more directly
It became obvious that I did not just want to design around healthcare. I wanted to be part of it properly, which is what brought me back into training.
Now
Building The Nurse Lab alongside nursing study
The site is shaped while I am doing lectures, placement prep, OSCE practice, and the same last-minute topic refreshes that other students are dealing with too.
Why I made it
Thoughtful handover, not a content dump.
Some resources had good content buried under messy layout. Some sounded polished but still did not help much in the exact moment you needed something clear, specific, and grounded.
I kept wanting pages that used proper clinical wording, but still felt calm and human to read. That is the gap I'm trying to fill here, one page and one tool at a time.
A small note
I still use this site like a student, because I am one.
That means I notice quickly when wording is off, a page feels too busy, or a tool adds friction instead of helping. Those are usually the things I want to fix next.
If something feels clunky, confusing, or simply not worth opening, I want to know. A lot of the best improvements come from those messages.