spacemonkey15

ODP is an HCPC registered profession, how will the OP convince the trust they're qualified for this role?

I presume this is for a practice development post? If so, it would be wise to look at this from the aspect of an educator. Think about where you've been involved in change before and consider how you would support it as an educator. How would you be involved in the planning of the change being made? How would you be involved in the implementation of the change? How would you be involved in maintaining the new standards after the change? Would you play a part in measuring the effectiveness of the change?

We’ve coped so far, the surge we had wasn’t as bad as expected and while we were stretched at points we’ve got through it. It has calmed down an awful lot, but I do wonder what’s going to happen next. I've heard from a number of friends across the UK that emergency departments got a pasting on Friday night, including our own. I don’t have the energy to get angry about it anymore. We will see what damage it has caused in a week or two.

Wales might be worth considering too.

Birmingham isn’t that far from Leicester, it might be worthwhile searching for posts at Birmingham women’s hospital.

If you’re after a change of scenery then itu will do it for you, however, getting into senior positions in critical care means sticking it out for the long haul, if you’re after climbing the ladder into management as a long term goal it may be worthwhile looking at a different path.

Littmann classic 3 is what I have and am happy with.

I echo what others have said here. I’ve had colleagues from itu who’ve wanted to move into palliative care and they’ve often gone into hospice nursing first to gain experience to apply for more specialised roles.

As far as I'm aware, a conversion doesn't exist, but you might be able to APEL some of your previous content from your ODP course (will depend on individual uni regs on this). Another option, if you have a degree already, might be the accelerated post grad nursing course. I think your best bet might be to approach some universities directly and see what they have to say.

I can't really add much to what's already been said, apart from the mixing ABX thing: Medusa is your friend.

Tbh, our government is using the Blackadder doctrine when it comes to the absolute car crash that is Brexit "Don't worry chaps, nothing can go wrong, because I don't have a plan!"

I don't know what Brexit is going to lead us to, whatever it does I doubt it'll be positive tbh. I would suggest sorting out your NMC registration as a matter of priority though, before Brexit makes it more difficult if you're still set on coming to the UK. Brexit or not, you'd be welcomed into work with open arms, we need experienced critical care nurses.

We're seeing a similar situation this side of the pond in the UK. Skill mix on the unit is becoming increasingly junior, staff turn over is getting higher. Some nurses are using critical care as a short term experience to accelerate their career progression into senior roles on the wards or into some advanced practice roles. When I was a student, critical care nurses were seen as the experts of nursing care in the hospital (I love the navy seals of nursing comment made in a previous post, I'll be using that in the future), it's why I aspired to be a critical care nurse. To those outside of ICU even a short period of working on the unit (6 months to a year) is seen as highly desirable when employing nurses into senior positions, even though it's an incredibly short time in practice as an ICU nurse. In my current place of work, nurses who've been there for two years are seen as experienced, when I'd been on the unit for that long, I was considered as still wet behind the ears. I guess there's a number of factors at play, it does seem that these days, no one wants to be a staff nurse anymore, but then conditions aren't great for nurses so why would they want to be? I've no problem with people wanting career progression, but it's immensely frustrating to put lots of work into supporting someone to become a competent critical care nurse just for them to leave after a year.

It's all cups of tea, scones with jam and clotted cream, cricket on the village green and being very, very good at queuing up for things. And then maybe some more tea.

I've bumped into this individual on another forum and they've asked similar questions (though the suction one is a new one). I'm not 100% sure that they dwell under a bridge tbh.