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BOOM! Bought 5 pounds ( inc shipping ) used copy from Amazon! Thanks a bunch for this suggestion! I missed out on a used royal marsden paperback (older edition) they sold on our library for just 50 pence the other night.

Well, I've given them a heads-up not to expect too much even though I did years of nursing back home as I've already been struggling to keep up with them, good thing is that my colleagues are all very supportive and they're not really rushing me into things. My manager has even started to send me out to study days along with the newly qualifieds long before I had my pin (I had to work as an HCA while I'm grinding to get prepped for the NMC exam) as she was so sure I'd pass the exam ..which I didn't, failed my first try and my visa goes kaputs if I don't pass the next one (which I did, thank God). It's more of my frustration to catch up with them that's eating me. And I've been keen on anything that can help me get the hang of how the NHS work. Usually, when I go nights are the best times to do "special training" as things are slightly slower paced at nights, I get to ask the senior nurses on how to do this and that, what to do if this happens or something. I've been taking home and studying care plans (we don't use printed care plans, bundles at back home). I just figured I could do some extra reading when I'm off. Well, I know have to take some time off when I'm not at work, but I can do that when I get the hang of things. And boy do I get off days here in the UK as long as I do 14hr shifts, I'd have to stage my death to get a nice day off with my previous work

Hi, so I haven't posted for ages (I've started doing 14hr shifts now)...again and I've managed to slug it out with the NMC's overseas nursing exam in an intense do-or-die battle and I'm now a newly qualified band 5. Thing is, much of my nursing from where I came from isn't really quite useful in the UK setting and I'm going through tons of growing pains at the moment, not to mention grueling 14hr shifts and it's just frustrating to have done years of nursing and back to scratch now since I can't apply most of my knowledge/skills. So I've decided to try and find reading materials to help me catch up quicker. There's the usual Royal Marsden manual which I have already, but is there any other major nursing books out there that you think might help me out? Like the "Nursing Bible" of books? (I mean, we have one for general nursing and medical-surgical back home but they're US based and UK practice is quite different as I'm beginning to learn now. And if there are any books centered around Acute Care that'd be great since I'm working in the acute care unit at the moment. My colleagues have been really great in helping me in the adjustment. It's not like they're rushing me at work but I'm just really frustrated with myself at the moment and I don't think I'm doing a good enough job. So I'll take anything that could help me improve.

Yes, sorry for the late post, it's been a very busy 2 months adjusting, working and prepping for the osce. This was the reply to my query "In response to your query, we require to see the original NBI which was uploaded and accepted by the assessment officer. If this is not available we will need to see a new police certificate which is dated within 3 months when you present it at your ID check." I recieved that 2 days before my flight. So I had a new nbi schedule booked at midnight when that mail arrived and then I was able to secure 1 slot left at nbi UN ave for 6am the next morning and I got the actual paper by 7am. Whew!

Hi, do I need to present a copy of my converted TOR for the osce? I recall my school sending over the originals to the NMc for the registration so I don't have a copy of that anymore. (PH nurse if this info helps thanks!)

Hi, last I posted was that I was asking about how nursing was in the UK. That was 2015. Apparently, I gave up on the offer and stayed off it for awhile since my old man didn't really have anyone to stay with him if I went ahead and took it. Fast forward 2 years later, he re-married and even has a 3month old babe of his own now and I went to pursue being a nurse in the UK again. I'm leaving for Cheltenham in just a few days, done with my NMC's CBT and will take the OSCE in about 2 or 3 months? However, I have a problem. I've lost my police clearance (NBI clearance when locally used here in the Philippines) just recently which as I recall was one of the NMC's registration requirements and I'm worried this is going to be a problem for the OSCE. Now I have two of these police clearances. One December 2016 and one around May 2017. The latter, I used for the NMC registration and the latest one for the VISA application. I lost the December one. I remember there's a note at the NMC website saying I should have all original documents for the ID check in the OSCE exam. Now I could only produce a scanned copy of the December from my backups at best. I've emailed the NMC asking about it but it takes sometime before they could reply from queries and I'm really worried about it. I wonder if they'll accept the latest one I used for the visa? or at least consider the copy of the exact one I submitted? T___T

6 years into working as a nurse in the emergency and I'm now at the point where I started questioning whether there's a point at all in everything I do at work. It's safe to say, I may have been disillusioned by my calling. This article made me look at my hands and gave me a bit of respite to not give up just yet.

I'm not sure on the country your practicing on, but are adult diapers not allowed by the institution? (provided the client is geriatric). I work at the ED and we get these types from time to time. I ask the client AND the relatives if they would be willing to give an adult diaper a try. There a sense of a shameful stigma accompanied with the adult diaper but with all the trouble of cleaning and taking a dump over and over, the client usually goes for it , for his sake as well. Clean up is easier, smell is more...manageable somehow and you avoid catastrophe with an absorbent sheet underneath the patient's orifice. I remember one time, I had an 80 pt who wanted to take a dump at the toilet which was a couple of steps away. He won't take no for an answer and would rather just die than use an adult diaper. Of course, I told him that I would help him out with a bed pan instead but everything went in a blink of an eye, he jumped over the bed railings and ran (in whatever way an 80yo could) towards the toilet. I managed to dash to him as he was about to trip, catching him from his shoulders and caught him as he was going down on his knees letting out a moan on his way down. And then it happened. I felt something liquid and warm gash from my thighs down to my legs as I was pulling him up. His back resting against my chest and his orifice on my thighs. I couldn't help it. Two words came out of my mouth: "Oh..sh*t..." in a somber, almost lazy tone. My junior, a couple of meters ahead of me had her jaws dropping and as if she was frozen in disbelief. I was stunned as well, so is our doctor. There was a few seconds of uneasy silence in the department. Then I came to. "Quick! throw me the blanket!", I called out to my junior. That grabbed her back to reality and hastily threw the blanket in my general direction. I caught it with my right hand while my left arm supported the patient and used it to cover his orifice and sat him down on the mono-block chair near us. Quick thinking, but not quick enough. The patient gave another moan. Soon brown watery foulness rushed out of his orifice like water on a fully opened faucet. Lucky for the watery stool, the monoblock had holes under it, allowing safe passage for the brown gunk. All hell broke loose! The area around the chair was literally flooding!! Oh man! Only 20mins and my night shift ends there. That's what I would really call, seconds from disaster! The client later agreed to use a diaper =/

Hi! I've been registered here in Allnurses since 2008 and I believe this will be my first real post here. I've been working for 5 years now as nurse in the Emergency Department. I've somehow nailed a job offer bound for the UK last week, about 40% of it only by happenstance (I stumbled upon this work agency after a failed attempt to get to an earlier interview bound for dammam and.. well..bam!) I still haven't taken any exams. In fact, I haven't even signed the contract agreement as I needed time to think about it. I don't have much of that really. I believe the hospital is under the NHS. I'm from the Philippines and I know nothing about how life is working as an entry level nurse in the UK. So I'd like to ask about it here. The offer is about £1.800. I was told in my orientation that it falls under Band 5 in UK's salary system. I don't know whether band 5 is any good or not. I'm guessing, it's entry level. (about £1,200 until I pass the OSCE) Accommodation and food are not subsidized by the employer. But apparently, I don't think that's the practice when it comes to UK jobs as opposed to the middle eastern job offers which really is the bread-and-butter of local nurses here in the Philippines at the moment. No tax, a free house with food allowance but a rather...challenging work life (My gf is currently a nurse in Dammam, Saudi Arabia) UK nursing jobs have this stigma locally, that Filipino Nurses would need to shell out a huge sum of about roughly £7,000 to get to the UK and work. Every local nurse that I know of has been telling me that. I didn't listen to them and to my surprise, none of that was true at all as I only need to shell out for my ILETS and the NMC registration, which is nowhere near £7000. Not even 10% (provided that I ace all the tests that is). So do you suppose an entry level £1,800 would suffice for me to live in the UK? Will that cover the cost of living or would I just be scraping by? With all taxes and fees aside, the agency thinks I'll have £1,400 as net a month which I'll be using for rent, food, bills etc. I'm not supporting anyone. I have no kids, my old man's got lots of money (apparently I don't hence why I'm looking for a nice career hahaha!) and well I guess I'll be working on starting a great career as a nurse and getting married. I'm currently reading UK taxation guides and I'm having trouble understanding it. There's an entry about 20% tax and allowances I don't really understand. I'm having a hard time whether to take my chances with UK as I will be leaving my old man alone here, and the with the 3yr contarct, that means my gf and I won't be seeing each other for another 4-5yrs which could spell disaster. My brother's in Dubai and he said that he won't be coming home this year. Perhaps the next........ "perhaps," he said. 'Got no friends or relatives whatsoever in the UK. But I've always been fascinated with country way back when I was a kid. I remember telling my late mother that I'd work in the UK someday and here it is. An opportunity to make a dream a reality. So I'm weighing my options very carefully and I've been having bad headaches for days now. I figured who else better to ask but the UK nurses themselves right? :) Best regards! I think I'll be posting around the forum more.

I'm not so sure what I'm getting at here as well hahaha! it's just that my dad keeps on insisting I study something in relation to radioactivity if possible. That link's definitely going into a book mark. I'll have to scour some more info once I get an actual job as a nurse (still unemployed unfortunately)

Well I'm still down on my luck to having my first job as a nurse, things are still pretty tight here in my country and things are about to go from bad to worse since another huge batch of nurses took the local board last november. My dad suggested I take some extended studies and he said I should take up something in the nuclear field? A nuclear nurse? Is there such a field in nursing now? My dad's an engineer for the country's major energy producer and he said they might re-open a nuclear power plant and he's confident he'd be able to stick me in there if I take some related extended study. He said the job is guaranteed to be exciting and pays really good! =D (and I like the hardcore stuff! I'm a Nat Geo kind of guy :) ) Hmm anyone knows an existing extended study that plugs-in into the nursing for this field?

I'm fresh off nursing school, also just passed the local board this June, I'm being offered a job as a company nurse somewhere...well nothing's for certain whether I'd get hired or not but when I think about interviews, I tried thinking of what the employer would say if I answered their questions as I did... One of the questions I'm almost sure they'd probably ask is...why here? why a company nurse? Why not in a hospital? Ok well I'm stumped on the same question I've asked myself. Why? because I want to gain experience. I have ZERO work experience actually hehe been focused at school. I'm also planning to apply on hospitals (since I think experience is a LOT more there than in a company)...Well I do have the answers but how do I actually give them a reply which would not reveal that I won't be staying there forever? (Surely they'd hire someone who would stay for long periods of time). But with the status of nursing here in our country... I doubt I'd get in on any hospitals anyway without exp. it's all about EXP EXP EXP EXP EXP x___x So I don't mind where I get it, I just need to have it :)