spacemonkey15

spacemonkey15 has 14 years experience and specializes in Critical care.

Latest Activity

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   New-ish US RN trying to find a job in Manchester UK

   spacemonkey15 replied to app22's topic in UK

   ODP is an HCPC registered profession, how will the OP convince the trust they're qualified for this role?
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   Band 6 Interview Presentation

   spacemonkey15 replied to kitkat84's topic in UK

   I presume this is for a practice development post? If so, it would be wise to look at this from the aspect of an educator. Think about where you've been involved in change before and consider how you would support it as an educator. How would you be ...
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   Checking in

   spacemonkey15 replied to XB9S's topic in UK

   We’ve coped so far, the surge we had wasn’t as bad as expected and while we were stretched at points we’ve got through it. It has calmed down an awful lot, but I do wonder what’s going to happen next. I've heard from a number of friends across the U...
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   Where to work?

   spacemonkey15 replied to waufah's topic in UK

   Wales might be worth considering too.
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   Job for L&D nurse in the UK?

   spacemonkey15 replied to Kara Flowers's topic in UK

   Birmingham isn’t that far from Leicester, it might be worthwhile searching for posts at Birmingham women’s hospital.
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   Career advice

   spacemonkey15 replied to NickRN's topic in UK

   If you’re after a change of scenery then itu will do it for you, however, getting into senior positions in critical care means sticking it out for the long haul, if you’re after climbing the ladder into management as a long term goal it may be worthw...
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   Stethoscope, trainee ANP job

   spacemonkey15 replied to Boo2's topic in UK

   Littmann classic 3 is what I have and am happy with.
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   ITU Nurse wanting to specialise in palliative care

   spacemonkey15 replied to anniz91's topic in UK

   I echo what others have said here. I’ve had colleagues from itu who’ve wanted to move into palliative care and they’ve often gone into hospice nursing first to gain experience to apply for more specialised roles.
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   ODP to nurse

   spacemonkey15 replied to Crinkles88's topic in UK

   As far as I'm aware, a conversion doesn't exist, but you might be able to APEL some of your previous content from your ODP course (will depend on individual uni regs on this). Another option, if you have a degree already, might be the accelerated pos...
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    Qualified for 7 years but no ward experience

    spacemonkey15 replied to nhblue's topic in UK

    I can't really add much to what's already been said, apart from the mixing ABX thing: Medusa is your friend.
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    Future of EU nurses after Brexit

    spacemonkey15 replied to danxthenurse's topic in UK

    Tbh, our government is using the Blackadder doctrine when it comes to the absolute car crash that is Brexit "Don't worry chaps, nothing can go wrong, because I don't have a plan!"
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    Future of EU nurses after Brexit

    spacemonkey15 replied to danxthenurse's topic in UK

    I don't know what Brexit is going to lead us to, whatever it does I doubt it'll be positive tbh. I would suggest sorting out your NMC registration as a matter of priority though, before Brexit makes it more difficult if you're still set on coming to...
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    Worried about the future of ICU nursing

    spacemonkey15 replied to Telenurse1990's topic in Critical

    We're seeing a similar situation this side of the pond in the UK. Skill mix on the unit is becoming increasingly junior, staff turn over is getting higher. Some nurses are using critical care as a short term experience to accelerate their career prog...
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    Life in UK

    spacemonkey15 replied to gudo's topic in UK

    It's all cups of tea, scones with jam and clotted cream, cricket on the village green and being very, very good at queuing up for things. And then maybe some more tea.
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    Do all nurses have to go into theatre and A&E when training?

    spacemonkey15 replied to Maya331's topic in UK

    I've bumped into this individual on another forum and they've asked similar questions (though the suction one is a new one). I'm not 100% sure that they dwell under a bridge tbh.