Speak about your shift
Press record on the way home and talk it through. We transcribe it and tidy the wording into professional, anonymous language.
Placement PalA reflective log in under five minutes
The AI placement companion for student nurses.
Placement Pal helps you get through placement well and finish it with something to show for it. Log shifts by voice, reflect with the model your university teaches, track your hours and wins, and export a professional portfolio when you apply for your first post.
Choose your model
Gibbs, Rolfe or Driscoll. Gentle follow-up questions help you think it through — then you edit every word yourself.
Export for supervision
Save it to your history and export a clean PDF for your practice supervisor, academic assessor or portfolio.
Everything else placement asks of you
Placement Pal is a placement success and resilience companion — practical tools for confidence, organisation and employability. It is not a therapy or mental health service.
Post-shift check-in
Four quick scales — demand, support, confidence and mood — so you can see how placement is really going.
Five-minute reset
Breathing, grounding and a short gratitude note to help you switch off after a heavy shift.
Wins journal
Capture skills signed off, feedback from your supervisor and the moments you handled well.
Practice hour tracker
Set your required hours and watch your progress bar and milestones move with every logged shift.
Mentor meeting hub
Templates for supervision: agenda, objectives agreed and the actions you're taking away.
Portfolio builder
One PDF with your statement, hours, reflections, wins and supervision record — ready for interviews.
Three reflective models, properly supported
Gibbs' Reflective Cycle
Six stages
The most widely taught model on UK nursing programmes. Good when you want to work through an experience thoroughly.
Rolfe et al.
What? So what? Now what?
Short and direct. Ideal for a quick reflection at the end of a shift.
Driscoll's Model
What? So what? Now what?
A gentle, question-led structure often used for supervision discussions.
Built to keep patients anonymous
We never ask for patient names, NHS numbers, addresses or diagnoses. Before you save, the app flags anything that looks identifiable and offers a de-identified rewrite. Your reflections are private to your account, encrypted at rest, and yours to export or delete at any time.