skylark BSN, RN

skylark has 39 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in ER.

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1. Cardiac Cath Lab Nurse

   skylark replied to AliceKath's topic in United Kingdom

   Completely off topic, but if the job situation is that bad, maybe think about going overseas? When I qualified (last century!), the best piece of advice our tutor gave us was to spend two years...

2. Interview advice

   skylark replied to Paul Stanton's topic in Emergency

   ERs traditionally do not take new grads, this is something that just evolved post-covid out of necessity. New grads do not have the experience to tackle emergency care, or the skills needed for...

3. Do Legal Nurse Consultants exist in the UK?

   skylark posted a topic in United Kingdom

   I'm an ER / A&E nurse planning to retire in a few years, after 40 years working. I would like to continue working in some capacity, ideally from home, and I'm seeing the role of Legal Nurse...

4. UK nurses overseas - maintaining NMC registration

   skylark replied to skylark's topic in United Kingdom

   Good to meet you Mariam, so glad that worked out and we both got to revalidate! Thank you again XB9S, its all good here, and I revalidated with Mariam. I hope its slightly less manic...

5. UK nurses overseas - maintaining NMC registration

   skylark replied to skylark's topic in United Kingdom

   I think its OK, planning to do this on Friday. I know you are crazy busy there, so I'm hoping this works out and I won't have to bother you! Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd

6. UK nurses overseas - maintaining NMC registration

   skylark replied to skylark's topic in United Kingdom

   OK next Friday works too. So you are two hours behind me, choose a time that works. You might not be able to PM if you are new here, but try sending me a message, if it doesn't work, I can...

7. UK nurses overseas - maintaining NMC registration

   skylark replied to skylark's topic in United Kingdom

   Retaliate?? I gotta see this! 😂 Seriously, I have to revalidate by the end of this month, so maybe we should have a shared discussion and kill two birds with one stone? I had started...

8. UK RGN thinking about becoming RN in texas

   skylark replied to Nurseclaireuk's topic in Nurse Registration

   You said in your post that you are an RGN, so you presumably qualified prior to 2000. That's where the "G" in RGN is helpful, it stands for "General", meaning that you did a general training and not...

9. UK nurses overseas - maintaining NMC registration

   skylark replied to skylark's topic in United Kingdom

   I just saw this, so sorry! I haven't completed the paperwork, I'm just getting a plan together, and could do this in a couple weeks, if that's OK? I just saw this, so sorry! I...

10. UK nurses overseas - maintaining NMC registration

    skylark replied to skylark's topic in United Kingdom

    OK so it's my turn again, I need to revalidate at the end of the year. Is anyone free to do the Professional Discussion please? I'm in Chicago, so on central time, 6 hours behind the UK....

11. Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC)

    skylark replied to sirI's topic in Legal

    Right, but could I work for UK based law firms, or only those in the US? Does the specialty exist outside the

12. Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC)

    skylark replied to sirI's topic in Legal

    I'm curious to know if Legal Nursing exist outside the US. I'm in the US right now but contemplating a retirement in Europe, but I would like to keep

13. UK nurses overseas - maintaining NMC registration

    skylark replied to skylark's topic in United Kingdom

    Practicing outside the UK is not relevant in terms of registration. Everyone has a location listed on their registration, mine used to say North West London, and now it says overseas. It doesn't...

14. UK Nursing Student Wanting to Move to US

    skylark replied to StarUSA's topic in Immigration Advice

    The UK nurses that did it trained pre P2K, when the UK still had general training. The current training structure in the UK does NOT make you elegible to sit for

15. UK Nursing Student Wanting to Move to US

    skylark replied to StarUSA's topic in Immigration Advice

    Pretty sure you cannot move to the US if you trained in the current 'branch' structure training and only completed one of the branches. The NLCEX requires hours in adult med-surg, OB, psych and...