paladin69

Hi American neighbours :-) Im a deputy charge nurse in a very busy endoscopy unit in a central London Hosptial - we have 4 procedure rooms and 16 recovery bays, we perform about 35 - 40 procedures per day including UGI, Colon, banding, pegs, nj insertions, ercp, eus + fna, Bronchs + stent insertions under GA, rectal lasering, polyp removals, emergency bleeds, paed patients under GA,s ... er... plus a few other bits and pieces, we usually have 1 rgn and 1 assistant in standard rooms, for ercp/bronc sometimes 2 rgn depending on staff. As you can imagine its a bit busy and staffing is chronicly bad,, and im fed up, as managment dont listen and moral is really low and sooner rather than later something is gonna go wrong and whos gonna get the blame?? guess who! Im therefore looking to change where i live and work, and the US looks promising, id love it if I could get info from anyone willing about pay scales, benefits, standards of living, average house prices and no of bedrooms etc, i dont know if your all aware but the housing market in the UK is overheating to the extent that key workers like nurses/ drs/ ambulance crew/ police find it totally impossible to buy property, the most id hope for would be a 1 bed flat, very basic, and thats with buying with my partners salary as well. Hope to hear from you all soon :-) Long live Uncle Sam ! :balloons: Alec

Hi there, Im actually writing from london, Im a deputy charge nurse in a 4 room 16 beeded recovery gi unit performing ugi,colon,ercp bronchs eus+fna procedures, up to 40 a day approx. we mostly have 1 rgn and 1 assistant in ugi/colon rooms and usually 2 rgn in specialist rooms sometimes 3 if we are lucky. Ive actually signed up on here cos i want to work in the USA as im fed up with chronic short staff, over work, stress and no pay (£28,000 gross at the mo for deputy manager post), id love it if people could message me with how things are like job wise in the US with pay examples - standards of living etc etc, id really appreciate this and if you want to know anything about nursing in the UK id ask any questions you have thanks Alec