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  1. Buying property in US ahead of migration

    cariad replied to LiverpoolJane's topic in International Nursing

    we were lucky and rented from a friend in the uk before we left, so didnt have any lease problems when we left, after 2 weeks of being in the states we started to look for our own place and moved into...

  2. Help! Information Please

    cariad replied to annecdote's topic in International Nursing

    nvq's dont take a long time to complete, a few months should be adequate time. so why are you signed up for 2 years training as a student when you are an rn. looks to me like the nurses from the...

  3. Nurse bashing by UK public AGAIN

    cariad replied to scattycarrot's topic in United Kingdom

    this is a guy who has had a bad experience, but he seems able to air his views in public, then why could he not have addressed the situation at the time in the hospital where he was kidnapped from? i...

  4. Visiting London soon

    cariad replied to lotus32's topic in International Nursing

    thats a great thing for you to be doing, dont forget to give us your feedback, once you have been over there, will be

  5. Split Thread / Nurse workload ratio

    cariad replied to wtbcrna's topic in International Nursing

    its different every night that i work, some nights can be less stressful and after everything settled down the other night it went well, apart from spending the rest of the night documenting, that can...

  6. Nurses Working In J C Lincoln North Mountain

    cariad replied to shortie2872's topic in Arizona Nursing

    jcl north mountain is exactly what it is, a trauma level one hospital in the middle of a bad part of town. i know plenty of nurses who work there, and if they feel unsafe then security takes you to...

  7. Split Thread / Nurse workload ratio

    cariad replied to wtbcrna's topic in International Nursing

    the workload over here is not always comparable, last night i had 6 patients, one who was on a heparin drip, one post-op, two getting ffp's and platelets and several units of blood between them, which...

  8. dancing with the stars

    cariad posted a topic in International Nursing

    i was looking forward to watching dancing with the stars which bbc america has been advertising to death lately, watched it last night and didnt see any brits on there, only americans, have watched...

  9. Applied for Sep08 course - now what?

    cariad replied to Temperence's topic in International Nursing

    my daughter worked in a nursing home before she went nursing and at least it gave her the chance to know what it felt like to touch and clean a patient. something student nurses dont get to do a lot...

  10. Pyridion Academy Health And Social Sandwich Program

    cariad replied to Serene_ieg's topic in International Nursing

    nvq's and svq's--the scottish equivalant are usually taken by non registered nurses who work in the health care industry. care assistants and nursing aides and people who work with adults with...

  11. how do you sleep?

    cariad replied to cariad's topic in International Nursing

    i use a benadryl occasionaly, which helps, but sleeping a bit better now that dh is home again from the hospital, it didnt help being in the house on my

  12. Nursing Assessments in the US

    cariad replied to rosemgon's topic in International Nursing

    i am doing a college sourse and have just completed a section on physical assessments, the book i bought basically went through the basics followed by assessing all the systems head to toe.,it cost...

  13. Sorry to crash your forum but...

    cariad replied to Djuna's topic in International Nursing

    even although its a stressful time for you, you are lucky to have an american spouse, that way you become eligible for a visa without going through a long drawn out retrogressed immigration process....

  14. Split Thread / Nurse workload ratio

    cariad replied to wtbcrna's topic in International Nursing

    i also feel like that, back home the pain meds would be to get a patient through a period of pain, over here its whatever they want give it to them, even for example a young girl the last night i...

  15. Split Thread / Nurse workload ratio

    cariad replied to wtbcrna's topic in International Nursing

    nurse -patient ratios are an anomaly in comparison, i can take care of 4-5 patients on a med/surg floor on nights over here and still do a lot more work than back home in the uk, even with huge...

  16. Want to hear the experience of a UK nurse coming to the US to work.

    cariad replied to vesperk's topic in International Nursing

    everyone comes to the us for different reasons, personally, i just wanted to do something different. i had no support system before coming here and none when we arrived either. even now the only...

  17. How many hours is legal ?

    cariad replied to Janey's topic in International Nursing

    i agree that is is unsafe and unprofessionl ,but over here it seems to be acceptable.i am surrounded by people who do 3nights with one hospital and three with another and both know about the other...

  18. How to find a GOOD nursing job in London?!

    cariad replied to SrnaRN's topic in International Nursing

    by the way i did not imply as a working mother you should settle for the lowest banded job or a part time one. i worked in the private sector when my kids were small, as it was easier to work my...

  19. How to find a GOOD nursing job in London?!

    cariad replied to SrnaRN's topic in International Nursing

    i was not meaning to demean you, but was trying to point out that in the uk, the higher the banding the more stressful the job is, something that i do not find in the us. where i work is on a med/surg...

  20. Information on UK Nursing

    cariad replied to lyndajayne's topic in International Nursing

    [color=olive]theres no such thing as travel nursing in the uk like there is in the us. you either work for the nhs or a private hospital. or there are some nursing agencies who give you work at short...

  21. RGn looking to relocate to Usa, preferably Florida, orlando region.

    cariad replied to jo1412's topic in International Nursing

    i am an ogp survivor, and like you wanted to go to orlando in the beginning, but then it wasnt important where we went. which was just as well as they dont have any long term contracts in florida....

  22. How to find a GOOD nursing job in London?!

    cariad replied to SrnaRN's topic in International Nursing

    when a nurse moves from the uk to the us they are just a staff nurse on the floor, regardless of how much experience they have from the uk. its only after you are orientated to the way of nursing in...

  23. US RN or UK RN which one is more qualified??

    cariad replied to nathan04's topic in International Nursing

    why compare training from nurses in each country as even different universities and colleges have different standards of trainig in the uk the same as each nursing school over here has different...

  24. What is a "nursing conversion program"?

    cariad replied to londonbridge's topic in International Nursing

    american rn's get their associate degree to nurse in 18 month or 2 year programmes, but even then they are like part time courses compared to the hours in the uk courses. it allows the students to...

  25. How to cope with lack of Vacation time in the USA

    cariad replied to madwife2002's topic in International Nursing

    its a bit difficult for me personally to save up and take the time off, after putting a deposit down on our house, we had a car accident, and my dh hasnt been able to work since then, so with medical...