Neo.Nurse

In the UK all new grad nurses (like me) get just over £10 an hour - round about $20 - although there's a higher rate payable for London nurses because of the higher cost of living. We all start with 28 days paid holiday plus 8 days public holidays. A...

Oh, I've just remembered one of the patients I met 3 years ago on my first ever placement (on an elective orthopaedic ward). I admitted a very pleasant, fully mobile and self-caring woman in her early forties who strode onto the ward for a small oper...

Hi everyone, I emailed Andy Worden at Staffs Uni and asked about a course that would enable me to gain paeds, mental health and obs/gyn eperience and he replied as follows (he gave me permission to quote him): "Yes, I've seen the same message on the...

This article is exactly what I needed. I graduated in Dec '07 and somehow managed to impress an interview panel enough to offer me my first job - in a NICU. It's what I've wanted for so long but I've never felt so small and frightened in my life. ...