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Hi late reply :/ . I think im still warming to the position, especially since I am a newly qualified. On top of that I never had any outpatients experience during my training so its all new. I still miss working on the wards especially in cardiac war...

Hi Im also newly qualified and started my first post in a dermatology outpatients clinic mid-January!

Hi Im a final year nursing student in the UK and ive always wanted to move to california. I have done some research in this and the same issue of not having the correct hours and theory in all types of nursing kept arising. does anyone know how I ca...

Hi babystea No probllem! I know it really is a nightmare! Even more so with the visa retrogression. But that part might be much easier for you since your husband is American (one less thing for you to worry about). The process is so long as well, th...

Hey babystea Im still researching on how to do this. I have found some posts by other nurses from the UK who have made up the required hours (theory and clinical) to be eligible to sit the NCLEX-RN. However the schools that they made up the hours, ...

Hi all, Just thought I'll share an event that happened on a shift last week.. Im currently on my final clinical placement as a nursing student on a cardiac HDU (Cant believe Im going to be fully qualified soon!!!!), which is at the end of cardiac war...

I too would like to specialize and gain further study in cardiac care. currently I am on my final clinical placement as a nursing student in a cardiac HDU (which i think is like a cardiac telemetry unit). So far I'm lovvvving it, and my mentor told m...

Ok so, I will be finishing nursing school this summer and have my final clinical placement coming up in a few weeks on a cardiac high dependency unit. I love cardiac and acute care, and I already know that this is the career path I would like to go d...

=] Thanks ! Thats what I'm definately going to do! =] :redbeathe:yeah:

I know this has nothing to with the post per se, but the number of patients caught my attention. u actually have 20 patients per nurse? O_O. I will be newly qualified in the summer but the hospital where i do my clinical placements nurses have on av...

I cant express how excited i am about getting my first choice for where i would go on my last placement as a pre-reg nursing student. I will be on a cardiac high dependency unit, and from what ive heard theres lots to learn! I think the length of thi...

Oh wow really? We get a mixture. Mostly students are on Long days/ early/lates and then do some nights as well. What is float? That's the same with me, I wanted to go into midwifery before I started nursing school but now I don't think I want to, ...

Do you get to choose what shifts you want to do for the duration of the placement? We only got to choose the speciality or hospital ward that we would want to go and then they give us our shifts when we call up. The shifts we get try to resemble tha...

Hey nadine! I'm excited too lool! Yep this is gonna be the 15th post! Then finally I can PM! :)

Yeh same I've been doing that as well...yes nursecabanita posted some really good info up which I need to check out. Also I'm goin to ask my aunty who lives and works in LA as a nurse, so I will ask her if she can find out some information Ill keep...

Thank u! =D I will do that right now!

Thank you for this info! :)

Hey, no I don't , I'm still in my final year of nursing school in the UK...just enquiring ahead of time I guess.

@nadine Have u come across any programs that can be taken to fulfil the requirements of clinical&theory hours in obstetrics/paeds and mental health ? I've come across 'cope health solutions' based in LA and they have a course to make up obstetric...

For all those who passed the california NCLEX were u all originally trained in the UK as a nurse? If so did you have to do a program to make up theory&clinical hours in the other specialities? Please help and thank you Maria =D

Hey, I'm in my final year of my nursing degree in th UK and I really would like to apply for a job at GRADY. Does anyone know how easy (or hard) it is to get a job there as a new graduate or whether its better to get some experience over here before ...

Oh ryt I see. Thank u for letting me kno

@nadine. I'm more than happy to keep in touch via email, I'm not sure about what we are and aren't allowed to comment on this forum lol. I gueSs wen I get 2 15 posts ill be able to send u a message. Maria

Hi nadine, U don't understand how much this information you've just given me, has brightened my day! :) I've been looking into the process for years now and I'm willing to go about this looong process to get there :). I'm not sure how to pms either ...

OH really???? oh nooo =[