jhan2288

Hi all! I have recently undergone the whole thing with registering in the UK with the NMC, finally received my PIN and worked my first shift in a UK hospital yesterday as agency on a Medical assessment unit (basically a branch of the ER/A&E). I found the situation there appalling. I'm a Cardiac HDU/ITU nurse back home (from Canada, but worked in Detroit), and I found the patient care situation is dire here. They had 10 patients to each nurse from 7:30-1400, and then I came on the unit and they handed over to me for 1400-2000. I barely had any report, the charts were all over the place, IV bags were not hung up properly or hung up at all. Medications had to be mixed by the nurses, which is different, but theres nowhere to find out the proper way of doing it, I asked how I could find out, and all the nurses said was "you just memorize it".I didn't even see one of my patients until 1900... because I didn't get a handover that I didn't know about!!! This was insane, and it makes me miss my job back home!! Is this the case with all the UK hospitals? IF so, how do your nurses survive?!!!!

MuppetAus, I am also going to be with continental, but I've been waiting almost a month for my recruiter to find me a job, and its going to be in haywards heath which is in the middle of nowhere!!! Where did you get your contracts?