skylark

skylark BSN, RN

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30 plus years, mostly in ER, but also including a decade in District Nursing.

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About skylark

skylark has 38 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in ER.


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  1. Transcript for ENB courses?

    You will need to chase them. I ended up making aa packed lunch and then going and sitting at the NMC all day!
  2. Transcript for ENB courses?

    Two options. Find out which university the school of nursing moved to; they will have an archive. Or second choice, you might find it at the NMC. I've done both previously, both are slow and will only have poor photocopies, but they ca...
  3. RN work as an LVN mil spouse

    You could also get your UK RN license and work locally, which will retain your TX RN license because its reciprocal. Lots of military spouses do that, at one point my floor in a hospital in Cambridge had more American spouses than local nurses!
  4. UK nurse to USA

    Most of us did it back in the day when the UK qualification was the RGN, which included all four branches and therefore met the requirements. One of the reasons they brought in the branches was to stop everyone going overseas! I believe there ar...
  5. Revalidation

    UK nurses overseas - maintaining NMC registration - United Kingdom (allnurses.com) Just add a comment onto this thread. Overseas nurses have been using this site for years. State where you are, or at least which time zone, and someone who can co...
  6. Primary care for elderly patients

    I'm looking for actual NHS policy framework documents regarding standards of care. They can't just ignore a patient over 90 because they don't understand how the phone robot works. And I can't call for her as I am overseas and the freaking robot won'...
  7. Primary care for elderly patients

    That's interesting as it seems to be for under 75s only. I will need to dig a little more to find out the plan for the over 75s! But thank you, I can search for links from there. It's difficult to find NHS info from overseas, as Google keeps giving m...
  8. Primary care for elderly patients

    I'm asking for help from anyone in District or Practice Nursing, to find out the current guidelines or targets for care for the elderly population. Long story short, my 91 year old mum has not seen a GP since she moved house 6 years ago. I took ...
  9. UK nurses overseas - maintaining NMC registration

    The time difference from here in Chicago to Melbourne is 17 hours, but if you can figure out a time on Thursday or Friday this week for a zoom meeting, I can help!
  10. US NP Seeking Licensure in UK

    American hospitals seem to cope only because the overseas nurses who work in them have such a different attitude and work ethic to their homegrown nurses. Their own nurses are the personification of the "too posh to wash" school of thought, and they...
  11. Graduate UK nurse making move to USA

    The NMC restructured nurse training into branches to stop nurses going overseas. The current training does not allow you to work overseas, unless you complete the three other branches as well. I believe there are universities that will allow you to d...
  12. Change in Triage Policy

    So we have always done triage the usual way, catching patients as they arrive, assessing them and then assigning them to the relevant waiting room to see the doc. Now we have a new policy. We no longer prioritize seeing patients on arrival, but ...
  13. UK nurses overseas - maintaining NMC registration

    Just an FYI folks, for those who are revalidating. The NMC recently contacted me to ask me to confirm that I was the one who took part in the Reflective Discussion for someone who was revalidating. So they ARE checking, don't even th...
  14. UK nurses overseas - maintaining NMC registration

    I can help via zoom, I'm in Chicago so I'm 7 hours behind you, but I'm sure we can figure out a time! PM me if you need help, I'm actually off work ATM with a knee injury so I have a lot of free time!
  15. UK nurses overseas - maintaining NMC registration

    I'm on US central time and can help via zoom or messenger.