I have a question about specialties

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) oversees the Nursing profession in the UK.

Here's a link to their overseas applicant section.

http://www.nmc-uk.org/nmc/main/Overseas/$Overseas01

PS Paediatrics is a separate nursing qualification, alongside General Adult, Psychiatry, and Learning Disability.

Hi,

It is much the same here except certain areas of nursing you need to go back to Uni and further 18 months training, before you can work there. The areas which I believe this happens in are Maternity, paediatrics, mental health, learning disability/. The rest you can work in from school but would be expected to take courses in relating to the speciality you have chosen, but it can take years to access the courses unless you pay for the courses yourself and not many nurse here tend to do that.

The holidays are good in uk 7 weeks full paid holidays and now because i have worked for NHS 15 yrs I get 8 weeks 3 days.

Kay

I'm from the US, and over here we just "specialize" in whichever field we get a job in. I'm in school right now and I'd like to come to the UK right after I finish. I'm very interested in Oncology, plastic surgery, or pediatrics. How would I go about doing this for the UK? Do i need some kind of liscense?

To make it easier for you to understand, in the UK, they attend 18 months of general nursing, then 18 more months of their area of specialty, such as peds, mental health, or adult.

That is why some of the nurses have problems if they wish to come to the US, they have to amke up the hours that they are lacking in the other topics.

You need to apply to NMC for a license there, just like you would have in the US>

To make it easier for you to understand, in the UK, they attend 18 months of general nursing, then 18 more months of their area of specialty, such as peds, mental health, or adult.

That is why some of the nurses have problems if they wish to come to the US, they have to amke up the hours that they are lacking in the other topics.

You need to apply to NMC for a license there, just like you would have in the US>[/QUOT

To Clarify re 18 months training, newer UK trained nurses will have trained the way your describing but a lot of RN's will have trained to be General Nurses for 3 years and then to work in above specialities will need to do futher 18 months to specialise. Newer Mental health nurses/learning disability& paeds nurses have little general training in their student program.

To become a midwife in UK you can either be a direct entry ie no nursing qualification and study for 3 yrs, or you have to be trained RN and do further 18 months.

Kay

Would it be possible to study in the UK the 18 months to specialize? Can anyone tell me how I would do this?

I will make some enquires and get back to you.

Kay :Melody:

training has changed yet again....you now do 12 mths common foundation programme and 2 yrs specialised. i qualified 2 yrs ago and we were the last group to do the 18 mths. in the common foundation i only did paeds placements.... no adults. when you begin training you have to know what speciality you want to do and if you want to change you have first few mths to do so and can only change if there is a place available.

it may have changed again im not sure..

Hiya,

You had that baby yet?

Kay x

Would it be possible to study in the UK the 18 months to specialize? Can anyone tell me how I would do this?

Hi,

What would you be wanting to specialise in as it is unclear from first message ?

Kay