Re: overseas nurses leaving the UK for better opportunities anywhere abroad
Bless your heart! I am "connected" to your lovely country via my boyfriend/live-in "common law" (in our state of North Carolina) who has been over here for twenty three years or so...he's from the East End of London....don't hold it against him, though! hehehe...
Anyway, I have visited his family with him over there twice now and, wait for it, I've wanted to MOVE THERE FROM HERE IN THE U.S. every time I go! I don't know...I guess it's 'cause I feel so disconnected from his family when we leave and it's so far away and difficult to call very often due to our work schedules and theirs...
Am getting to the meat of the topic/reply here...am very long-winded, sorry.
When I went the first time to visit and we stayed in the middle of London itself, I made it a genuine opportunity to visit the Florence Nightengale museum there. It was really awe inspiring, if you haven't yet visited.
Now, I was SHOCKED and disheartened, really didn't even believe it when his family told me that the nurses there in England don't even make enough money to survive...well hardly, anyway. Like you've stated in your post...if you don't have a roomate, or husband, or boyfriend living there to share expenses, you cannot make it unless you work another p/t job on the side. I honestly did not believe them! Compared to our salaries over here in the states. Unbelieveable!
I'm sorry the NHS doesn't recognize the talent and very hard physical as well as mental efforts that the nurses put forth to keep the mainstream of sick/injured people in the UK mass of not only natives of England that feed off of the NHS society's packages of goodies... All the swelling of the isle's masses of people not even born there just is too much of a strain in sheer numbers to be taken care of and it shows in the above post that you've typed.
Maybe you could apply to get on that two year's wait list to come over. We need good nurses like yourself.
You have my utmost respect for the hard job that you perform.
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