Student nurses are among one of the very few degree courses allowed to return to university campus this semester. Alongside medicine, dentistry, veterinary science and other health related studies, the government have prioritised the return of student nurses as their training is essential in paving the future of public-sector positions. Within their degree course, student nurses are required to complete hundreds of hours of voluntary hospital placement. As the NHS is stretched even further in the ongoing pandemic, nurses are being put on high-risk Covid wards to help cope with the rising number of coronavirus cases. They are undergoing extremely stressful circumstances, putting their own health at risk and completing tasks that trained nurses would do and yet, they are still not being paid for their placement hours.