GrumpyRN NP

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Retired ENP, 35+ years of experience. From Scotland.

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    Best way to start practising nursing?

    GrumpyRN replied to xalis's topic in United Kingdom

    Sorry to say this, as someone who has interviewed for staff I would probably throw out your application. I would be looking at what you have been doing for the past 4 years and asking myself why you...
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    Looking for the right place

    GrumpyRN replied to Dan_lnd's topic in Immigration Advice

    I'm afraid that what you want you will not get with nursing as your career. Unless you get very far up the promotion ladder. No-one comes into nursing to make their
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    Looking for the right place

    GrumpyRN replied to Dan_lnd's topic in Immigration Advice

    Move away from London, somehow every other nurse manages. London is expensive - what did you
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    Looking for the right place

    GrumpyRN replied to Dan_lnd's topic in Immigration Advice

    Scotland!
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    Australian Trained Nurses be advised

    GrumpyRN replied to aine.mckenna's topic in United Kingdom

    Sorry, what's your point? Seems to be plenty of Australian and NZ nurses working in UK so it must be feasible. Actually, I recall my manager doing a telephone interview with a nurse who was in...
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    Pros & Cons: Working as a U.K. Staff Nurse in the Hospital and Nursing Home

    GrumpyRN replied to pandabear_19's topic in United Kingdom

    Sorry, should have been DAVID
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    Pros & Cons: Working as a U.K. Staff Nurse in the Hospital and Nursing Home

    GrumpyRN replied to pandabear_19's topic in United Kingdom

    £11.50 is bottom of the Band 5 grade for newly qualified nurses. In NHS you would expect to move up an increment every year (Davis Cameron not withstanding). In nursing home you will earn that for...
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    persistent vomiting despite antiemetics?

    GrumpyRN replied to Infofreak411's topic in General Students

    Isopropyl alcohol
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    about contract terms working in the U.K

    GrumpyRN replied to sapphire_aster's topic in International Nursing

    It means exactly what it says, you are contracted to work for 1 year or 2 years or whatever and then the contract ends. You are then unemployed unless your employer extends the contract or you find...
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    Pros & Cons: Working as a U.K. Staff Nurse in the Hospital and Nursing Home

    GrumpyRN replied to pandabear_19's topic in United Kingdom

    You do not say where you are from, if you are from USA then nursing homes in UK are different. They tend to be (depending on type) full of elderly people who are not sick. They just need help and...
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    Can I accomplish becoming an RN at 26?

    GrumpyRN replied to honeyforasalteyfish's topic in Men in Nursing

    I started nursing aged 26, I took it as a job to do until something better came along (UK, different system - I was paid as an employee to train). Here we are 30+ years later and I still haven't found...
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    Evolution and Nursing

    GrumpyRN replied to TheFowldogg's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    Wow, just..... wow! I am glad I live in the UK where the theists would be seen as wrong to give negative attention to an atheist. I regularly wear t-shirts with the slogans "god is an existentialist",...
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    Evolution and Nursing

    GrumpyRN replied to TheFowldogg's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    And Darwin put it in language for his time and this has been improved upon by biologists etc. You have heard of DNA? There is no controversy, evolution is fact. There is evidence for it. There is NO...
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    Heading back to work in the UK, I wish!

    GrumpyRN replied to Chapyi55's topic in United Kingdom

    That will be the same attitude that exists for UK trained nurses trying to work in US...... To the OP, I'm really sorry but what did you expect? You do not have the relevant training and if you had...
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    Evolution and Nursing

    GrumpyRN replied to TheFowldogg's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    I too thought this was an attempt at humour but after reading what macawake wrote I now believe s/he is serious. Sigh...... (again). I find it ironic that the god of the old testament only made...
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    band 7 interview

    GrumpyRN replied to bexbrown's topic in United Kingdom

    Sorry, but you do NOT understand what site management is if you think "we practically do everything skill wise except site mgmt." Band 7 is a management role and you will be dealing with site...
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    Evolution and Nursing

    GrumpyRN replied to TheFowldogg's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    Where? When? Again faith is required to accept this - I require independent proof and unfortunately I cannot accept the bible as proof of itself. No, no, there is no 'battle' in my mind. Evolution is...
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    Evolution and Nursing

    GrumpyRN replied to TheFowldogg's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    This is going to appear argumentative and aggressive, it is not meant to, it is a simple statement of how I think. It is difficult (sometimes impossible) to get the nuances of language over while...
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    American student studying in the UK

    GrumpyRN replied to scwhit84's topic in United Kingdom

    For information, I have worked with a nursing student here in Scotland who was a trained RN from USA. Had experience as an RN but when they came over here they had to become a student again to become...
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    Nursing outside of the United States!

    GrumpyRN replied to csistudent37's topic in International Nursing

    You made me laugh with that one. Why do you think Australia qualifies, and I quote from the OP. "I am wanting to share my knowledge and skills with others who are less fortunate than us here in...
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    Evolution and Nursing

    GrumpyRN replied to TheFowldogg's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    While I understand that you feel this to be true they are in fact two entirely different things. Faith accepts the writings of some bronze age men who needed to find some way to explain the world...
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    GOD in NURSE is the Difference!

    GrumpyRN replied to sunkanmiolaniyi's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Sorry, could not
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    Advice Needed

    GrumpyRN replied to Miss Sheee's topic in United Kingdom

    If you are purely interested in money then stay where you are! You will get a starting salary as they have told you. Weekends, unsocial hours and night rates can be added on but only if you actually...
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    Evolution and Nursing

    GrumpyRN replied to TheFowldogg's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    What kind of a person requires threats of everlasting punishment, torture and fire to understand what is right and wrong? Do your morals not come from doing the right thing regardless of...
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    Needle Stick injury

    GrumpyRN replied to Sweetxangel16's topic in Nurse Management

    I understand that it takes time to sero-convert for HIV I used that as an example. It is less for Hepatitis though and that may be what the test is being asked for. I repeat, what is the point in...