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I'm sure they did, the only problem is we don't have enough staff to cover the nights shifts, which means we may be required to work nights and days within the same week.

Our shift times are currently: Early: 0700-1500 Late: 1330- 2130 Night: 2100-0730 Long Day: 0700-2130 There are proposals for new shift changes at our trust which will be as follows: Early: 0715-1515 Late: 1215-2015 Night: 2000-0730 Long Day: 0715-20...

Hi So sorry to hear you have failed your exams. It happened to me also. There is help out there, if you are with a union, either RCN or unison approach them for advice, they were really helpful and appealed on my behalf. Speak with your tutors as wel...

I reply to this thread in two capacities, both as a nurse and someone whose family member has diabetes. My views and opinions are however the same regardless. I have been taught never to swab prior to giving a diabetic insulin, for several reasons. ...

Please.....does it really matter where a nurse originates from? Surely the important thing is can the nurse do her job in a safe and competent way. Does it really offend you so much for nurses to speak in the language of their home countries around ...

Yep there is a real world. There is also bad practice. There is also very good practice. There are ways and means about going about reporting bad practice and quite frankly being very vocal about it, as far as I am aware is not one of them, nor is it...

May well be, still no real idea what this threads about, maybe we can debate whether BritishStudent has qualified?!!

Maybe I'm just having an off day, but I have read this thread all the way through, (all 7 pages), and I'm still none the wiser as to what the main subject is actually about. Is it about: 1) How student nurses get treated? 2) The differences between h...

EEkkk... I don't know about being too anal..... I like having a uniform, I feel proud when in uniform that I am a nurse. I too had a silver buckle and this had meaning not only that I was a qualified nurse, but the fact my parents bought it me as a ...

This obviously doesn't work ..frequently I am asked by visitors for vases, cups of tea, mop buckets, the floor being wet...etc......maybe they think I am the domestic!!!

Agree Angel Ann, it depends on where you work and what speciality you work in. For example I work with stroke patients and the staff here carry out swallow assessments, often we are called from other wards to carry out swallow assessments as the nurs...

Firstly, don't be tempted not to put your medical history on application forms, you will be found out and then have no chance of a job as people will consider you untrustworthy. Be honest. You can explain either on your application form or in person,...

Firstly, don't be tempted not to put your medical history on application forms, you will be found out and then have no chance of a job as people will consider you untrustworthy. Be honest. You can explain either on your application form or in person,...

Yep, it's individuality. Personally I could not work all day shifts or all evening shifts, getting up 3 days on the run for an early shift just about does me in!!! so I enjoy the mixture of lates and earlies. As for wokring 40-50 hours, I couldn't do...

Well in that respect were lucky then!!!!!

Yep. Although we moan alot about working conditions here in the UK, compared to some people we are really quite well off. I know my sister here in the UK works in the public service sector and only gets 4 weeks annual leave. As nurses, I think it's ...

Yes we do have some of the longest working hours in Europe, but having researched into nursing in Canada. our holidays are fantastic compared to there. Here we get about 35/36 days holidays, whereas in Canada, (and I assume the US), they only get abo...

Hi, Although I am from the UK, the advice I will give you still applies and is very simple. If you truly still want to be an RN, then don't give up. I was in a similar situation about 9 years ago when I was doing my training, I failed my exams twice,...

I think it has been said before, but I'll say it again as it is what I believe. Even with todays technology, no-one can say for certain what "brain dead" or unresponsive patients can and cannot hear, which is why I always chat with any patient, resp...

HI I am assuming that the 1 indicates that you are a first level registered nurse.

Hi I am actually thinking of moving to Canada. Mainly for a change and that if I don't do it now I never will. Unlike yourslef, it's taken me 9 years off being qualified to decide to move countries!!! So on to nursing in the UK. Okay the pay isn't t...

I hate nights when there mixed in with days, for example, this week I am on day shifts Mon, Tues, Weds and Thurs and then a night shift on Saturday. Off until Tues. In general I don't mind nights, gives me time to catch up on paperwork:-)

Interesting reading, I'm not Canadian or US, but from the UK, and quite a few of these apply to me, especially the Tim Hortons, when I am visiting family over there, does this mean I should emigrate and became a Canadian resident??!!!!!!

I am a UK trained registered nurse with a university degree and eight years work experience, within acute stroke nursing. I am considering emigrating to Canada, specifically Ontario. Could anyone give me some insight into Canadian nursing for examp...

I completely agree, the UK people are quick to moan when the services don't meet there expected standards but moan when taxes are increased or about to be increased. Sorry people of the UK, (myself included!), you don't get something for nothing thes...