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No nurse in the UK would give a non prescribed medication. He had a lot of heart problems and took the medication regularly. Many think the mother gave it to him, which is why it wasnt discussed in the courts

I live in Leicester and have worked at this hospital through my agency. Firstly to note, this doctor was the only registrar covering 6 different areas with a consultant who was off site. The patient had been noted for previous deterioration and was receiving fluids and was improving. Someone then administered unprescribed Enaprilil, some assume it was the mother, as it was his regular medication, and he started to deteriorate again. CPR was started on the child but there was a lot of confusion at the time about his DNR status, there isn't any solid information as to why CPR was stopped but the jury were informed CPR would have had little effect. The nurse has been removed from the register for 5 years and can return after that period. She was an agency adult nurse, but had previously worked on the unit before. Its been stated in her NMC hearing that she was struck off for not taking observations, not doing a fluid balance and not escalating concerns. I'm not condoning her behaviour, but she did inform the the NMC that staffing was very poor and she tried to escalate concerns to the senior nurse as staff nurses aren't allowed to contact doctors (to prevent their bleep going off all the time) and have to discuss with the senior nursing staff instead. She said the senior nurse ignored her concerns. There were many other issues such as IT going down, lack of senior medical support and lack of experienced nurses on the unit. But both the nurse and doctor carried on working from 2011 when the incident happened to 2015 when they were brought to court, and had unblemished records. I have a lot of sympathy for the family of Jack, he didn't deserve to be the victim of poor care, but that poor care seems almost conducive to systematic problems. It seems like just the doctor and nurse were entirely blamed for the situation which doesn't actually address the problems in the system. If anyone is interested, there is a facebook page that is supporting the doctor go to the high courts to appeal the decision. There is a lot more information about the case there

There's definitely a Filipino community in Notts! I was commuting in from Leicester for my shifts which wasn't a big problem, but Leicester hospitals aren't that different to Notts, so I just transferred out of convenience

I used to bank at NUH, but mostly in QMC so can't say much about City Hospital. It's a nice trust, very big with pretty much all the specialties. It has the regional trauma centre, so if thats your thing then you'll enjoy being at Notts. Lots of opportunities for development and training. They regularly advertise management and clinical roles internally, so if you want to progress the opportunity is there. All nurses are on agenda for change, it doesn't differ in any hospital/trust. You'll likely start at the bottom of band 5, which would be around £22,000 - ish, before tax. Nottingham is a nice place to live in. It's quite a large city, with trams, trains, buses - so good public transport. The city has good shopping centres and restaurants so you won't be bored. It's also fairly reasonably priced, so accommodation and cost of living won't eat up into your whole salary. You may as well just stick to Notts. Some agencies can send foreign nurses to absolute ************ but you've lucked out - but then your experience of NUH may be different to mine. May I ask what country you're from. There may be an existing community of nurses from your country, so you'd at least be able to adjust more quickly.

The nurses that I know who have become reps, usually just looked up rep companies and checked out if they have vacancies. Why not consider a 9 - 5 nursing job, like a GP or community or outpatients. Much less burnout but still very patient orientated. I don't want to seem intrusive but why do you not like the PIP assessment job? EVERY nursing career fair I go to have either an Atos or Capita etc stand and I'll be honest the salary and working arrangements make it sound really appealing.

Hello, I'm going into my final year of nursing in the UK and we are allowed to do a 4 week elective which can be national or international. I really want to do my elective in the US but a lot of the places I have contacted won't provide short placements to students. I was advised to contact larger practices like the Mayo Clinic, but they can't offer anything for such a short amount of time either. Ideally I would like to be in a larger city in a hospital environment as majority of my current placements are in quite a small hospital, I'm not particularly fussy about area. If anyone knows anywhere that I can contact about work experience, that would be great. Thanks!

Do you not need to go through the ANP masters degree before applying for ANP posts, and would it not help transitioning from a band 7 NP role to a band 8 ANP role, unless the ANP role is band 7?

I did some agency shifts at Southmead a few months ago on mostly medical wards and I found them to be really pleasant. Nurses and doctors were nice, lots of students, management a bit haphazard but not dissimilar to many places I've worked at. Very reliant on EU nurses and I don't think Brexit has helped. Bristol hospitals have unfortunately built up a bad reputation due to it's children's services, but I found it a nice place to work. Bad parking but brand new facilities

They've removed the bursary so students will have to take out loans of up to £50,000 to get paid £18,000 after tax, so I don't think the future looks excellent for the NHS

Sometimes I wish I was a doctor. I'm a nurse in the UK and we don't have anywhere near the same level of pay, career advancement or responsibility that our US counterparts seem to have. Doctor's do work long hours here in the NHS, but probably nowhere as long as you guys in America and some nurses here have to work 60+ hours since pay is so ****** here. And of course, in the UK nurses still have a very low status, you would not believe the number of times I've been called a bum wiper, or all we do is wash people. In the UK, doctors have natural career progression, yearly salary rises, research opportunities and respect. I still love my job, but there's a lot I would change about it.

Don't worry Phil, I'm sure the introduction of nursing associates will fix everything!

The title is really self explanatory. I was a mature student when I started nursing (at age 22) and one of the main reasons I did nursing was because I knew I would leave uni without debt and I very proudly have no debt to my name - university wise. I also went to a very small campus. We started off with 25, whittling down to about 18 by third year. I received an email from my university asking if I know anyone who wants to do nursing and that I should encourage them to apply. While I do have a lot of long term worries and believe it's totally disastrous that they're removing the bursary, one of my biggest concerns is that my old campus will have to close if they do not receive enough applications. I just want to collate a few personal thoughts on what other nurses think. I've found many of my nursing colleagues are quite unconcerned and a lot of my old lecturers are quite optimistic that this will mean more funding and less restrictions on the number of students they can take on, but I'm definitely not feeling the same vibe!

It's like A&E, but with less staff and more documentation.

I totally understand. If my circumstances were different I would have stayed in London. Best of luck in your career.

Lincolnshire is in the Midlands, so it's a reasonably affordable place to live. I assume you'll be working at Grantham hospital? I've not worked there myself but did meet a Filipino nurse in London who worked there originally who said it was a nice place to work in, and it already has a small Filipino community so you won't be alone