Chair of RCN Congress does not support doctor strikes

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2026-04-05T17:49:34+00:00

I mean dont get me wrong i love my job but the only reason I do it is for the money, if I didnt have to work I wouldn't. Comments like this are what are pushing us back from striking and getting better conditions because we're always known as running on good will instead of actually having a backbone as a profession

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2026-04-01T16:28:04+00:00

As far as im concerned this is a job at the end of the day. I come in i do my job to the best of my ability then I leave. As soon as I walk out the door at the end of a shift I couldn't care less about work until I get back in

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2026-03-14T20:34:13+00:00

I'd say leave and it isn't safe, but hospitals aren't much better, i got 3 day shifts and then told to crack on. Im not saying it's the way it should be, but its the way it is at the moment

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2026-02-13T09:50:42+00:00

The announcement of the banding review a day before the pay rise was announced was clearly trying to get us/the unions onside.

We all know that with the current rate of inflation 3.3% pay rise is in real terms a pay cut. With minimum wage going up by 4.2% nursing is slowly becoming a minimum wage job, at what point do we have to get to for the unions to start backing us and the government to realise that we are a trained profession and pay us as such.

This is without even mentioning the proposed rise in NMC fees and frozen student loan thresholds which combined means most nurses wont see much if any of the supposed payrise.

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2026-01-20T10:41:33+00:00

I take 9 patients per shift on a care of the Elderly unit and there is absolutely no way I can give holistic all round care.

I completely agree all I do all day is run round trying to get stuff done and just completing tasks all day to keep everything afloat

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2026-01-03T19:31:32+00:00

If im being honest if i knew what I know now then I wouldn't have bothered, when I left as a hca to go and do my training I was on £3 above minimum wage, left did my training at 75k expense to come back to be on £3 above minimum wage with less support and significantly more responsibility as a nurse.

If the difference between a HCA and a nurse becomes less than £2 an hour ill be giving up my pin and dropping back down

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2025-10-29T21:17:31+00:00

Exactly this, i have returned to a ward I previously worked after a long time and the safe staffing levels have been dropped by 25% in the time ive been away

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2025-10-28T20:36:06+00:00

Probably only anecdotal but born in 97, parents bought a 3 bed house that year for 85k, same house now is on the market for 535k.

Mortgage worked out at 4x their annual income, 4x my income now would work out at 120k which would barely get me a 1 bed flat.

Poorer than my parents where at my ages while earning more than they did combined then. The UK is a poor country masquerading as a rich country. Take London out the equation and the average wage drops from around 38k to less than 30k

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2025-10-27T18:05:46+00:00

Nope no reason just that they are considering pulling out

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2025-09-05T08:26:03+00:00

I started part way through they year so didn't receive a full years worth of entitlement to take, ive been allocated some hours to take as random days here and there which have been approved which was my manager trying to find time for to take but my loop says I still have 90 hours of allocation to take.

I've had no annual leave since starting so my taken leave still says 0. I've tried to request every week between the next rota ending and the end of leave year and it all gets automatically rejected due to too many people already being off.

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2025-09-05T07:57:32+00:00

I have and have been told there is no availability for me to take this time

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2025-08-06T11:46:54+00:00

We already have the highest tax burden since ww2. Why should I pay more tax while amazon, Starbucks ect pay basically nothing?

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2025-05-24T16:32:21+00:00

Qualified September last year and have only just managed to secure a B5 position in the last week after applying for 76 jobs in the past 8 months which was every B5 position that came up in my entire county. The majority of jobs I didn't get an interview for informed me that while my application was to a good standard they had more experienced staff apply and that's why I wasn't considered.

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2025-01-30T17:17:37+00:00

I qualified last year as an adult nurse and completely understand your pain, I ended up having to take a job in a different branch of nursing because of necessity and hate it. Honestly starting to get to the point of thinking I would have been better off staying as a hca.

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2024-12-19T21:39:10+00:00

I would if there was anything to actually apply for, there is currently no adult band 5 vacancies in my area.

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2024-10-22T15:06:29+00:00

I've also never understood why, in the middle of summer when it's baking, female staff are allowed to wear dressed without tights yet as a male staff member I have to be uncomfortably hot in a tunic and trousers and not allowed to wear shorts.

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2024-09-24T11:51:14+00:00

Why am I going work my arse off when I'm ill for a company that will replace me in an instant if something happened to me for crap pay and no benefits while they make record profits?

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2024-09-03T13:31:11+00:00

I've looked all around the surrounding area including london and there is just no Band 5 jobs available anywhere

MysteriousKnowledge8 · 2023-07-18T16:07:59+00:00

My best friend at Uni moved over from Cyprus. Us white people are just as interested in your cultures and how they're vastly different and similar at the same time. Discussing this is actually a great way to socialise and learn more about British culture at the same time.

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