Hepatitus b vaccine

[Balco]

Hi ok as i suppose you know from my messages the last or two i got accepted onto nursing course but for the course you have to haved had the hep b vacine

ive looked into this and it looks like this takes 6 months to take place so this means i wont have completed it by march 15 when course starts will this be a problem?????

[carz]

Given that you will probably have to pay for it.. the cost is £90 for the course.

I work as a practice nurse and if you are in what we class 'At Risk' category due to where/what work you do, the Hep B is free.

Anna

Not to get off the subject but I am curious is a practice nurse the same as a LPN? Or a state enrolled nurse and do they still hire them in britain? I remember years ago someone told me that they laid off all their enrolled nurses and hired aides. Just curious as I am a LPN.

[CliveUK]

No, they're not enrolled nurses: a practice nurse is a registered nurse who works in a general practitioner's (family doctor's) practice. The one at my local health centre syringes my ears, but I know they do a whole lot more than that heh!

[karenG]

No, they're not enrolled nurses: a practice nurse is a registered nurse who works in a general practitioner's (family doctor's) practice. The one at my local health centre syringes my ears, but I know they do a whole lot more than that heh!

syringe ears............ I wish!! I'm a nurse practitioner but the PNs are registered nurses, starting to be graduates at that!! we do anything and everything from nurse run diabetic/ asthma/ chd clinics, to surgery- my other half at work does cryotherapy. The role is what you make it, so I know PNs who do psychosexual counselling, run smoking cessation stuff. common to do travel medicine, plus all the bog standard stuff of dressings, injections, ears (ugh) cervical smears etc. some are involved in research, teaching.. all sorts!! there is no standard job description.. so what a pn in my area does may differ to another area. we are not enrolled nurses.. honest.

Karen