jenne

I'll assume your registration is sorted... Entry level is as a band 5 nurse and basically in this country you can work in any speciality once your registered. I started in critical care as a newly qualified nurse. Check out NHS Jobs These are all nhs jobs (you'd have to put in your chosen location) and you could apply for any band 5 positions as long as registration is in order x

this is exactly what has happened to me. I am an experienced critical care nurse who has done a critical care post registration degree and I have been passed over by someone who has done no post reg study at all and has worked in the unit less time than me due to te fact she did a better interview. Do you have someone in higher management that you can get interview coaching off? I have to say I've decided to leave critical care and am job hunting now. I have lost all enthusiasm for it at the moment x

I have just qualifed in sept and I have a job in icu. The staff are really supportive but i really am not coping with the reality of being a nurse. I have severe confidence issues, which I have never suffered with as a student (or before). I cry at the thought of having to go to work, I feel completely overwhelmed when I'm there and constantly clock watch for the end of my shift and practically run out of the building at the end of my shift. I am on my first week of nights at present and I cannot sleep due to the pressure I'm putting on myself. I have had 4 hrs sleep over the past 2 days and have to go back to work again tonight. When I have approached people at work they all say say I'm doing alright but I am not finding this reassuring at all, it feels like they are just brushing it off. I don't know what to do or where to go for support...I am so close to giving up nursing altogther as I cannot carry on like this!!