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I am in a situation where I live and work in my own country, but because of the amount of English people who live here I am unable to speak my native language at work. I've heard non natives critise my fellow countrymen for speaking our own language because they can't understand us. Our government has had to introduce a language law to prevent our native tongue from dying out I will not speak English if there are staff around who speak my language, its my first language and although I am fluent in English as well I find it easier to communicate in my own language, I know English speakers can't understand me but i don't think in English and it's comforting to be able to relax my guard sometimes and not have to translate before I speak. There is no excuse for being rude, but if English isn't your first language it is nice sometimes to take a break and not have to think about speaking. I don't mind being told that I'm not understood and will switch to English if needed. Sometimes I don't even realise I've switched until it's pointed out. what I'm getting at is these nurse who are talking their native language may be going it for a few reasons it's nice to speak your own language, and far away from home I'd imagine there would be some comfort they may not realise they have switched from English, language is intinctive if someone says hello to me in my own language I respond in my native tongue automatically, it's not deliberate

I'm not a US or OR nurse so please forgive me if I don't understand the intricacies of theatre nursing, I do work between the wards and theatres in an advanced practice role. Where I work we have teams of theatre staff, the scrub nurse / assistant the nurse in charge of theatres and at least 2 runners who are not scrubbed and maybe more depending on how big the case is. We would never expect the nurse who is scrubbed to answer a pager or phone, but because the doctors usually have more than one sick patient and do need to be contactable it is expected that one of the runners answers pages and phones. Just to make sure that there is no emergency / urgent situation with another patient. I would have no hesitation in contacting my surgeon in theatre to inform him of something that was happening on the ward, and yes I know it is an inconvenience to the theatre staff but there are things he needs to know. If I get no response to pages I will put theatre scrubs on and go into theatre if I have to but this takes me away from a potentially sick patient so I would prefer to phone or page. Providing there were no catastrophies going on in theatre I would expect a member of the theatre staff to answer that and relay the message.

So how do you provide health education Billie, as a nurse it's fundamental to your care of your patients and your generalisations are not going to help really. It's an addiction like any other, unfortunate for those who struggle to quit and have long term health problems as a result. I don't like to see nurses smoke, it doesn't portray a very good image and makes it difficult to promote a healthy life style, non smoking hospitals are obviously a good thing, but having only areas that staff have to smoke with patients is not good. If we are going to help our staff to give up we need to provide them with the education and support they need, and if they are struggling we need to provide them with areas away from the publics view to support their addiction. Telling them it's a trashy low class habit is not going to help, and in fact it really isn't restricted to what you would traditionally consider the working class. Some of the most educated and sophisticated people I have met smoke, they know the risks and have chosen to continue.

Your entitled to your opinion, but to be honest, to generalise about any group of society is not wise as your usually proven to be incorrect. I wonder, as a nurse how do you manage to provide health education to patients who smoke, I can't imagine them being receptive to a someone who is so judgemental

Wow are you in NZ already, that was extremely fast I'm amazed you've been able get get a work permit organised in the short time you've been asking immgration questions do you mind telling us how you've managed it, What language requirements are there, if you've been professionally registered with thier board of nursing and what capacity you've been hired in. I am sure others who are wanting to leave the phillipines would dearly like to know how you've achieved so much with your qualifications experience and how so fast

You have a 1 year practical nursing course, that's not recognised in the UK or any other country outside of the phillippines so I'm not boasting just being practical. In the UK, that qualification wouldn't allow you to nurse because it's not the standard that the Nursing and Midwifery Council requires. If you had a 3 year nursing degree with experience in critical care or theatres then I'd be saying a completely different thing as that's a transferable qualification with skills in areas that we need in the UK. If you want to work abroad you need to make yourself marketable, a 1 year PN is not marketable. You may not like the message but it doesn't mean it's not the truth. Finding work in most countries is difficult so the more qualifications and experience you have the better chance you will have at finding work. So yes, I would advise you go back to college and get a qualification that other countries would want if you truly want to work abroad, otherwise your going to be classed as unskilled labour and most countries have enough of their own citizens who fall into that category. Or you could just continue being angry at sensible advice and spend your days in the Philippines wishing for a different life, it's your choice.

Oh dear, where do we start. Firstly it may help to get yourself properly qualified, a 1 year PN aide is not going to get you very far in the UK. We have enough of our own citizens who have minimal qualifications and need work without giving jobs to those from outside our country. Your student visa is just that a student visa, once it's expired you will have to leave the UK. I think you will find that you'll get a similar answer from Canada as well. If you want to work abroad your going to need marketable skills, from what you say you don't have these at the moment. I'm not even going to touch on your plan to find a wife while your in the UK, the very notion is just very nasty, and I think Silverdragon, Fiona and Sharrie have covered that aspect of your plan. If your dream is to truly work overseas then my suggestion would be to go back to college and get a qualification that would be useful in other countries, it may well take a few more years but unless you have something that employers want and can't get in their own country your going to find yourself out of luck.

Another UK nurse here, and I can only reinforce what others have said. My hospital is currently closing wards and making some nurses apply for jobs elsewhere or face unemployment. There are jobs advertised in the various websites but for each job you will find that there are 20 plus British nurses who will be applying for them. My sister has just finished her nurse training and half of her group have not found jobs.

Really, do you honestly believe this. Yes primary care refers on to a specialist but there has to be that in depth understanding of the various conditions, both common and rare to even identify some of these disorders. They treat and manage multiple pathologies with the poly pharmacy that comes with that without referring to specialists. I cannot understand how any professional would believe that less education could be a good thing

I would suggest that you make up the work experience required to work in Canada if that's where you want to work You would need to speak to the Canadian Immigration / nursing boards about that. It may well be they don't recognise the qualification and the transferability of international qualifications is notoriously difficult to assess. I certainly wouldn't take the word of anyone who is going to take money off you to get you enrolled on the course It would be up to the UK borders agency if they would extend your VISA to do this, but if you don't have more than a years experience as a nurse you won't fit the criteria that is needed by the nursing and midwifery council so wouldn't be eligible for registration as a nurse in the UK No idea although I've looked at their website and found this a bit of a worry

Firstly, BBC news reports that NHS managers numbers have risen to 45,000 over the past year, and during the same period nursing and midwifery posts have been reduced by 2% Go figure http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8587122.stm Also reported is that NHS England have presented proposed spending cuts to the government with the aim of saving up to £20 billion by 2010 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8590710.stm Now I am a strong advocate of the National Health Service but I am concerned about the sustainability of a quality service when faced with such proposals. I understand the need for management in the NHS I really do, but increased managers when the numbers of clinical staff are being reduced I struggle to understand. Can you imagine going into a restaurant to be told that because of cutbacks your waitress was serving twice the number of tables that day and it may well be that you would have to wait just that little bit longer for service, you'd not go there again would you and yet I fear that this is what we are asking our patients to do, with their health which is far more important than dining out, and without the choice of seeking a better service elsewhere. I'm not sure what the answer is but I truly am concerned about what this means for our poor patients.

Actually, I seem to remember the UK nurses had a "Chat Meeting" once a week. I never participated but the feedback I've read in the posts seem to indicate that they did really enjoy their virtual meeting.

http://www.midyorks.nhs.uk/Patients+and+visitors/Patient+information/EIDO+Healthcare+leaflets.htm try here for information about procedures

Does this mean you left your account open with someone else working on it for long enough for her to finish what she was doing and for him to send this email. In my facility you would be investigated for leaving your IT account vulnerable to abuse and this is something that where I work you could get sacked for. Your IT account is your responsibility, we have to sign IT contracts that states this and then you have to take responsibility for anything that happens with this account. Also, did you see him send the email? Has he admitted it, how do you know it was him? The last person to be working on your account would be the one that I would be more suspicious of, not sure of what action would be taken over this, with the greatest respect what proof do you have that it was this person? I am not sure you can sack someone on a suspicion you need to have firm evidence.

Your not getting flack because you said you don't want children, your getting flack because your generalisations about children and women who do want and have children are quite frankly offensive and rude