adrianwd5

Thanks Burnt2 The ten years is bedside care on acute, trauma and CV ICU in the Uk, I've been qualified longer than that! AACN replied via the website that UK experience is no good which is what outraged me. Thanks for the tip re my supervisor, I'll run it past her I think she'll help me out wherever she can Adrian

Hi all I am a British nurse now working and living in the USA, I am keen to undetake the CCRN but am outraged to find that my 10+ years experience counts as nothing towards the clinical hours required. I worked in several facilities in the UK all with at least the same if not more acute patients who were easily as complex and often with more drips/devices attached. Does anyone know if there is a way to get my experienced recognised? Adrian

Hi I recently moved here to California from the UK to work as a RN. Back in the UK I was the ward manager and earned £32,000pa, here I make $30 per hour, this works out at slightly less per hour but the cost of living here is lower than in the UK, yes even in the Bay Area! I work for an agency and feel that they shafted us financially, the Nurses on a California Nurses Association Contract make twice what I do!! so working here is going to be good. Standards of care here are different, bettere in some ways, worse in others what else can I tell you? Adrian

Hi just read with interest the discussion on eICU, I work in the UK as an ICU manager where we have a service in ours (and many other hospitals) called outreach, this seems to be a similar concepot in that a small team of Critical Care Nurses have patients refered to them by ward nurses following their assessment of patients, we use a "Early Warning Score" tool to aid them doing this. these Outreach Nurses then offer help and advice to the ward staff and negotiate with the medical staff. Some centres outreach staff can prescribe some resusitation drugs. you find some of the literature available, do a search for CRITICAL CARE OUTREACH or go to http://www.doh.gov.uk and serch in the website for the same hope this helps Adrian

Hi all I am a British RN, coming to work at the Summit medical Centre on ICU later in the year. has anyone got any advice or information I might find useful. I am bringing my wife and 2 children with me (8 & 12). any advice re housing and school districts would help too!! Any help or advice welcomed Adrian

Hi, I manage an ICU in the UK currently and have been in critical acre nursing for 10 years, have also done research, outpatients, PACU and surgery at ward level. Relocating to California later in the year to take on a post as Staff Nurse in ICU there so add me to your stereotype!! Adrian