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I am a NQN and , I was wondering how do people have a dating life while being and a nurse and how can they balance this. I would like to meet someone but with nursing it sometimes feels impossible.
I’ve never had a bad or unkind student, if anything 95% of my students have been very keen and interested in learning but I find teaching/explaining everything I do and the reasoning behind it SO tiring. My brain seems to find it harder to teach than to be a nurse.
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I am an international nurse interested in gaining experience in the UK, I’ve passed my CBT and currently looking for NHS hospitals for sponsorships for OSCE training. If you have any advice or info regarding international nurses applying and gaining sponsors I would really appreciate hearing which trust or route you used and what stage you were when they recruited you.
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Hello Just looking for some advice I’m an a&e nurse 2 years qualified who has only worked in a&e, I’m wanting to pick up some bank shifts on a ward but I’m feeling nervous as I’ve never worked on them post qualified? Any ideas thoughts and advice would greatly help!?!! Thank you!!
I was out with my nursing friend this weekend and we ended up at an after party. During this time she was significantly drunk and she was approached by someone she found out to be a sibling of one of her old patients. She did try to leave and several times she said she shouldn’t be there, she doesn’t believe she breached any patient confidentiality in terms of care plans and such but she did tell the sibling that the service user is loved and cared for. Since the party Saturday night she’s been anxious and very worried that she would be reported to the NMC due to this, she did tell the sibling she doesn’t work at that trust anymore or with the service user.
She’s already beating herself up a lot about it as she knows she should’ve left but she was past the point of being drunk and she left shortly after that. Is there any advice anyone can suggest I give her?
Hi all, just wanted to flag that I’d spotted a NQN jobs post on nhs jobs for Leicester.. thought I’d pop it here as I know the market is dire and it might come in handy to share to all you lovely NQNs and soon to be qualified nurses ❤️
Just noticed someone else has done this for another post. A trust near me is currently advertising for NQN for the unplanned care team.
Hi, just wanna ask how in demand renal or hemodialysis nurses are in the UK? What are usually the requirements if you're a foreign nurse applicant? How much is the usual pay? Thanks in advance.
The bullying, the indirect comments, the blame culture, the hierarchy, the power plays, the favouritism, the nepotism, the fakeness. Nursing is supposed to be a caring profession but sometimes it’s far from it.
I have a job interview lined up for next week, I am really nervous as I really want this post and also haven't had an interview since qualifying basically, which was an informal one anyway. The only experience I have is in orthopedics.
Could any of you provide some suggestions on how to prepare for the interview? What kind of questions should I expect to be asked?
TIA x
Hi everyone! I’ve recently been offered my first nursing job as a newly qualified Registered Adult Nurse, working on an acute medical/stroke ward in South Devon.
I’m really excited but also nervous. For experienced nurses, especially those who’ve worked in acute medicine/stroke, what advice would you give someone starting their first nursing job?
Anything you wish you’d known as a newly qualified nurse, things I should revise before starting, or tips for those first few months would be really appreciated! ❤️
Hi really need guidance and support please. I am a 24yr f. Currently working as a self employed carer for one elderly person with alzheimers. i work one week on. one week off. I am struggling to know what to do with my life. I have a child nursing degree and worked in a hospital for 16 months but left due to understaffing, stress and burnout. I left in feb 2025. I then did 10 months of traveling and currently doing this caring job. this job in theory sounds easy. But i am really struggling with the isolation and the job is not helping my mental health. I am lucky with this job as i have travel and food paid for and i have a place to sleep when i am not on shift and the pay is good. but there is no progression in the job and i am a worryer as i don't know when the job will end as i only care for this one person. I am very scared to go back to nursing but i thought about giving it another go as i worked so hard to get the degree and at least there is progression as an option . I just hope that the next hospital i work at wont lead me down the same route as before. As many people have told me each hospital is different. I also have a lovely person who is a band 7 nurse on the adult ward where i think i will apply who said she can support me at times and check on me, which i really really appreciate. TBH I am just worried i will make the wrong decission and I am scared. Thank you for taking the time to read this and any support i would value and genuinely appreciate more than you know.
Also i have looked into community and school nursing etc but they are really hard to come by and expecially where i live at home.
any carers feel the same caring or have any support? thank yo
More of a rant than anything else, but, is anyone else just absolutely sick of the abuse they get every day? No matter what day, no matter what bay I’m in, no matter if the patients are confused or not I’m physically and verbally abused. I’ve absolutely reached my limit, I can barely eat due to how depressed I feel, my skin looks like shit. Patients ask for help, you do what they say and then they’re still horrible to you. The medical team don’t believe you because the patients are all sweet to them but then they turn around and spit in your face. Lots of people are off sick at the moment and I’m thinking of joining them because I genuinely cannot do this anymore. I understand they can be having a bad day, be stressed, be bored but why do I have to be everyone else’s punching bag?
Hi all, I’m due to qualify in the next couple of months. I do have a job lined up in an acute hospital however I am interested in practice nursing. I’m in the south of the UK and I was wondering if anyone’s gone into this newly qualified and how they managed to find a post? Thanks in advance.
I’m qualified for a few years now but this is my first time ward nursing, and I feel like an idiot, everything I do feels wrong, everything I think I’m doing right feels like it comes with so many mistakes, I’m having panic attacks about coming in to work, I spoke to my manager and I’m on an accelerated preceptorship, out of my own choice, she thinks im doing fine and in her words ‘an excellent nurse’
I’m on a night shift tonight and I just feel like I’m so slow and stupid and the other nurse seems to be sick of me,
Does this get better these feelings cause I’m currently on break about to cry
I experienced significant bullying in my first post. Patients were treated horribly so I whistleblew and left. It was partially upheld (I was very depressed and anxious so my
I’m not going to get into too many details but I was basically always the one being moved, I had surprise meetings and called out of the little ward rounds I was allowed to do for these. My nursing practice was never a concern and I occupational health requests from senior charge nurse had completely false information in it based on people talking about me and I could prove via documentation, kardexes etc. When I left I finally had someone come to me and fill me in on everything that she had reported on my behalf. I also had my mentor literally screaming and shouting at me (not even about me - she later said it was about the ward in general and was fine with me after that) in the medication room. Patients heard and on couple of occasions patient said to me they couldn’t believe she had spoken to me like that.
Gaslighting was absolute hell and I found out that the senior charge nurse had a bad rep around the hospital. I also had 7 bereavements in like 6 months and was wrongly told I had run out of compassionate leave for my grandads funeral so had to leave early. Turns out it was all sick leave that was being used. Now I know that it’s usually direct relatives but others had compassionate leave for non-direct relatives.
Anyway that’s just the tiniest bit of what I experienced. I experienced it for 1.5 years and since I’ve been in a new place in a new health board with new people who are generally nice. Not perfect of course but I’m finally being treated like a human (apart from a couple of people who were above me and that’s another story but that’s sorted now - I reported it).
However it only takes one colleague who shows some controlling traits and doesn’t like being delegated to when it’s my turn to be nurse in charge. I don’t mind being delegated to obviously as long as it’s reciprocated. And it feels like my fight or flight is set off. I literally have nightmares about this person even though she’s a good nurse
Unfortunately I now have a lot of sickness and I now feel no other option but to reduce my hours. I have psychology input, and it doesn’t help me being neurodivergent. I’m so sad because I feel like I had such potential to be a good charge nurse but unfortunately that’s just not really an option for me. Like a lot of places in NHS, leadership aren’t supportive and if you’ve been seen to raise an issue even if it’s valid that goes against someone higher than you, then you’re cooked. Thankfully I’m not being bullied now though and I’m actively working on building my identity outside of work.
It’s just frustrating how it’s impacting me so much. I was seen as unreliable because of my sickness and because I was crying A LOT and now I’m medicated properly thank goodness, that is rare now and I’m trying to reduce my sickness.
If I’d known I was neurodivergent before becoming a nurse and knowing what I know now, I probably wouldn’t have bothered to be honest. This is just my experience though but it’s honestly taken my 20s from me.
I have been working in nhs as hca for 2year . I got my pin in 2026 December after i went to maternity leave so its been almost 9 months that i haven’t started working as a nurse,i asked my ward manager if there is any vacancy and told me that there is non.so the problem is that if i left nhs i have to pay back my maternity leave allowance so i am thinking to return back to work in hca role for a while till i find a job as band 5; however as a nurse i can’t work as a hca and it will be year not working as a nurse its really stressing me So please give me some advice what i’m suppose to do.
Hello!
As the title states I am hoping to move from outpatients to ward nursing at some point in the next year as I need a change and to expand on my skills. I got into outpatients as an NQN and feel like I've lost quite a lot of basic skills. However I do feel like I have gained a very niche knowledge and skillset for the area I work in currently which would definitely be an advantage on a ward.
Anyone else been in OP for years and decided to move to ward nursing? I'm kinda pooping my pants a little as they will expect me to know more than I know as I'm 4+ years qualified. I had an interview at the start of my pregnancy for a ward role and the whole time this little voice in my head kept telling me I wasn't a real nurse. Silly, as I see my OP nurse colleagues as highly skilled! They said I interviewed well, but they asked me about certain drugs during the interview and I don't deal with medication on the daily. So I stumbled and made it very obvious I hadn't a clue.
I have applied for a job recently and wonder how to have the advantage if I am successful for interview? Like.. many of my niche skills won't help me on a ward. I suppose I have loads of wound care experience and I can take bloods. So will preach on that.
OP was a choice as I adored the speciality, still do. But Im currently on maternity leave and I feel two shifts a week on a ward would be more accommodating than 3/4 in a clinic. Also to progress anywhere I want to experience ward nursing to at least have checked it off! Especially if I want to try ITU one day or Neonatal nursing.
Thanks in advance 😁
I am one of those that really enjoyed my Health Visiting placement and actually saw myself doing this line of work long-term.
I'm a newly qualified paediatric nurse, with a year experience in nursery and close to 5 years as a care assistant (all whilst I was studying in uni).
I know what I'm asking, I know I'm inexperience in actual paid clinical nursing and that I'll probably be on the younger side of applicants that may apply for this role.
So any input, advice or recommendations is welcome! From wherever parts of the UK you're from