title: Safeguarding patients  as a student nurse.
abstract: Emma Louise Botten is a second-year nursing student at King's College London and a regular contributor to the BJN Student Column. In this issue, Emma emphasises the importance of your role as a student nurse in safeguarding your patients. She provides an overview of resources available to student nurses and some practical tips she has gathered from her own experience.
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Nursing, King's College London.
authors.forename: Emma Louise
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Botten
mesh_terms: D007297:Inpatients; D008131:London; D024802:Nurse's Role; D012449:Safety; D013338:Students, Nursing