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  1. student nurse fed up with the NHS

    TinaK replied to babes690's topic in International Nursing

    Hello Denise The government indeed does need to get its priorities straightened out regarding funding for the NHS , but I can't see it happening any time soon ...and thankyou for your comments, i...

  2. student nurse fed up with the NHS

    TinaK replied to babes690's topic in International Nursing

    Hi madwife Yes that is good advice, I should have thought to have done an informal visit initially but it didnt' cross my mind , but thanks for the advice, it is something I will make sure I do in...

  3. student nurse fed up with the NHS

    TinaK replied to babes690's topic in International Nursing

    Hi madwife, Sorry, I think I overreacted just slightlyyyy I apologize about that! I've had a lottt of people being quite critical towards me lately for suddenly dropping out of nursing so soon...

  4. student nurse fed up with the NHS

    TinaK replied to babes690's topic in International Nursing

    Madwife, its not that i was not prepared for the hard road in front of me, its just as a newly qualified nurse I was assigned to a very difficult area where i reallly reallly needed the support and...

  5. Did I do the right thing?

    TinaK posted a topic in International Nursing

    Hello everyone, Its been a while since I have posted here , sorry about that, things have been quite stressful for me at the moment. I've come on here to ask for some advice and to see if anyone else...

  6. Did I do the right thing?

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in International Nursing

    Hello , thanks to all of you who replied my post about me leaving my job recently, everybody's comments were really supportive and i don't feel as worried now as i did when i first left. I have...

  7. student nurse fed up with the NHS

    TinaK replied to babes690's topic in International Nursing

    Hi there Unfortunately yes, there are very little jobs for new nurses...and just as worse, in my experience so far the support for new nurses has been really poor. I recently qualified in february...

  8. Current NHS issues

    TinaK posted a topic in International Nursing

    Hi everyone Just a quick question, does anyone know what the most recent and current issues in the NHS are? I am going for an interview in the endoscopy unit on the 16th for a staffnurse post and in...

  9. any UK nurses moved to CANADA

    TinaK replied to isobel's topic in International Nursing

    Hi Canuckeh What is this initiative that you speak of? and who would I have to contact to find out more about it? I am an adult trained UK nurse who has hours short in Psychiatry, Paediatrics and...

  10. Did I do the right thing?

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in International Nursing

    Thanks for replying madwife and silverdragon, your comments were reassuring, most of the time I do think I did the right thing as I feel a lot less stressed than I did whilst I was working on the ward...

  11. any UK nurses moved to CANADA

    TinaK replied to isobel's topic in International Nursing

    Hi there I am in the process of seeing if my UK training matches up with canada, in BC also! ...you need to get this special form from the CRNBC, they are the registration board of Brit Columbia and...

  12. making up missing areas

    TinaK replied to Scotnurse2006's topic in International Nursing

    O grady peyton now do a special foundation programme for people who qualified after the year 2000 for people deficient in the hours soooo ring them up :) they had an ad in the nursing standard about...

  13. query about leaving nursing for a bit..

    TinaK posted a topic in International Nursing

    Hi there everyone I was wondering if anybody could help out with a query... I'm interested in doing a masters degree at my local uni, full time which means i would have to leave nursing for a...

  14. News that may be of help to uk nurses wanting to make up hours for usa

    TinaK posted a topic in International Nursing

    Hello everyone I have some news that people may want to know for those of you wanting to go work in the usa ... The Geneva healthcare agency has updated their website and they now have written on it...

  15. News that may be of help to uk nurses wanting to make up hours for usa

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in International Nursing

    Hiya guys...just letting you know that I'm still trying to get in touch with geneva...have left a couple messages on the answerphones but no reply as of yet , due to time differences but as soon as...

  16. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    I failed to read that part about the car park ...hmmm hope its not that bad...I would probably be commuting everyday if i was there as got family in vancouver b.c and im guessing i would be expected...

  17. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    We must keep in touch! :) heheh funnily langara is the option i have told many people about , yes i am planning on doing that as my last resort as it does have everything! I am in the same boat as...

  18. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    Aww your uni sounds very accomodating, I am in the final 4 weeks of my 3rd year elective (its in A&E) and my uni have flat out said no , numerous times ... all uni's across the UK have different...

  19. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    Hiya will staffordshire uni let you complete those hours?? your very lucky if they will, i am short on the hours i need but my uni won't let me make them up at all...do staffordshire uni let...

  20. Being an Agency nurse in the UK good/bad?

    TinaK posted a topic in International Nursing

    Hello everyone I am soon to be newly qualified and what with all the fears of current job freezes in the NHS I am not sure I will have a new job to go to ...have been considering agency nursing full...

  21. hours needed to top up in practical/theory...

    TinaK replied to hanna74's topic in International Nursing

    Hi there hannah May I ask what uni you go to? Do they also offer to help students from other uni's top up the hours they need? my uni is reallly horrible and won't help any student gain the hours they...

  22. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    Hey matt did you get that info pack from ogp? Did it have anything interesting in it?

  23. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    Hiya matt Your really lucky in that case, cov uni is sooo crap! I wish I had never enrolled there, we don't have set portfolio's to do which centre on different area's of nursing and we certainly...

  24. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    Hi matt I rang up about this course today..not sure how hopeful it sounds. O'Grady told me its for nurses who qualified years ago who cannot go back to their nursing school to make up the hours...

  25. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    So OGP actually do a course now that you can do?? hmm is it fairly a new thing then as when i asked them in 2004 they said they didn't do anything and that I would just have to find universities...