Ciara1997

Thankyou for your response! Awh ok, that's sort of a pity then. I think all nurses should have experience in a range of filds of nursing, as it is the general public we deal with. Did you train then prior to 2000? Do you know what routes I need to take after this degree in order to obtain all of these requirements? As in, do I need to do each post-grad course (children's, maternity and mental) separately, or is there any course to integrate these? Thanks again for your help

Hi, I am a final year student nurse and just about to start my dissertation. I still have no idea on what exactly I want to do. I am studying in the UK so our topic is in relation to implementing something in the National Health Service in order to provide better patient services/outcomes. I am really interested in Cardiology and was thinking something along the lines of heart screenings for every person wanting to join a sports club, as have SVT myself so have quite a good understanding of arrhythmias. also you see so often young people passing away from cardiac arrest after having 'undiagnosed' heart arrhythmias in newspapers, social media etc. Or, there was a case this year in the UK where there was a little boy (Alfie Evans) who was clinically brain dead, and the doctors wanted to turn off his life support, however, the parents didn't agree, as they wanted to try other therapies in Itlay. This case was brought to the high courts and was all over the news here. Nurses and doctors who worked at the particular hospital received a lot of abuse during this time by protesters. Unfortunately, the little boy passed away after the high court giving the case to the doctors who wanted to end his suffering. I don't think there are enough policies in place in who has a say in Critically Ill patients or how they go about choosing to turn off support systems and is clearly very difficult for the family to deal with and are probably not in their right mind-frame when situations like this arise. therefore I was thinking of trying to create some sort of policy to say how long patients should be kept on life support or something in the lines of this. if anyone has any recommendations or ideas could you please let me know? I really want to obtain a first in my degree and want to do everything to achieve that! Thanks

Thanks so much for your reply. I knew the training in the US is more advanced and covers a broader range of nursing fields. However I am willing to do whatever it takes to get me to where I want to be :) Just wondering if you know, do I need to take each Childrens, Maternity and Mental Health as post grad courses, or is it just experience required for these fields? Hopefully its the latter, as it would take me another 5 years on top of my adult nursing to be able to even look about doing the NCLEX and any other US competency exams!

Hi, I am a final year BSc Adult Nursing student, due to graduate this time next year. I am studying in London. I love it here but aim to move to America in the future. I was just wondering, how do I go about practising nursing in California? I would love to move here as soon as possible, so any information would be really helpful to point me in the right direction. I am really interested in Cardiology nursing also so any recommendations for the best hospitals in California for Cardiology would be greatly appreciated. I have American citizenship, so that will not be a factor. Thanks a million for any replies, Ciara