peterthescot

I can read a lot of different messages here here in the UK you can't get a job at all as nurse. New grads are working as sales assistasnts. Or not at all. We have been planning to move to South Carolina. Doi you think that is a bad idea? We just realy like the US and the way of life. Anybody has aby advice please?

Hi Dofarel, thank you for your message. Did you move to California? It is really good to hear that somebody did make it without big waiting. I hear a lot of this retrogression going on at the moment and wast waiting times. So your message offers a light of hope. Of course the NCLEX first. How long did the process take you, if you don't mind me asking? If that is a subject not to speak about on a public forum just let me please know and I would send you my email adress, I would really like to hear about your experiences. Thank you very much, hope to hear from you have a great day Peter

I am working in acute medical. It is not uncommon to end up to look after 15 patients on your own with no support whatever, an assistant will help if you call for support. Of course than you get the usual discharges/boardings resulting in admissions. To keep the story short, it is dangerous in all matters, care planning and delivery are scraping around the basic mark and documentation and Health and Safety went right out of the window!! So Oreo75 to answer your question, I am sure you are able to cope with nursing and you deliver great care but you get cut down in your efforts by this staffing levels to the point where you can only do whatever you can, perhapst often or most times reacting to care need instead acting/proacting. But please keep in mind that you do the best you can under these circumstances. There wont be much change to this situation untill the management structure within the NHS will change and NHS management is more focused on care delivery instead of selfpreservation and "Management by Helicopter". In addition I think nurses need to learn to fight for their causes better and stop hiding behind "no-strike" regulations and vote for industrial action. This should be really on RCN Manager minds!! You are right to be worried about your career and beeing frustrated. I think the most nurses are. To keep yourself save as possible I suggest you report this, even so it is a common situation. I don't know about your place but we have a "Serious Incident Report" system. I am using this system to report this staffing level and that care delivery is impossible under these circumstances, these reports are official and going up the chain of management as far as HSE or CEO. Inform the duty manager at start of the shift about the shortcommings. In addition I am going to the Senior Charge Nurse and complain about the shift (that is the nice description, you don't like to hear the original version :angryfire). That deals with the legal side of the matter. Please be adviced!!!! It is needless to say that in the "blame less or blame free" culture of the NHS of today I am not very popular with neither management nor Senior Charge Nurse.

hello everybody, i am new here (first post) so please bear with me. i am very interested on this thread as i am about to prepare the move to the usa myself. but it seems i did not have so many difficulties, or perhaps i am not as well informed as i should be. so any comment and/or advice would be really welcome. i have applied with the california board of nursing, spoke with my university, nursing and midwifery council and a few month later i got the letter to be eligible for the nclex. after some time now i am preparing to sit the nclex in august . starting to have nightmares/panic! have been thinking to start the visascreen at this time too. am i right that with the nclex passed (i hope) i could start to look for an employer? any advice or comments are really welcome. have a great day peter