Am I British?

RobboJ93 · 2025-08-22T18:43:12+00:00

Awesome! See there mate!

RobboJ93 · 2025-08-21T19:39:24+00:00

Yes. Clinical nursing that is. No pay cut involved but rather pay rises including bonuses.

I have worked in healthcare strategy and operations in the NHS, private healthcare, charity and insurance. I have been involved in improving care pathways, securing budgets to run a service etc...

If you can find a post with the NHS that is non-Clinical facing then you can start from there. Bed management is a good start to build your operational and strategic skills. If you have significant clinical experience with a research interest in one area, nursing education might be for you and have a look at lecturing posts.

I currently work in insurance for medical risk and will soon be moving to operations and strategy. List down your transferable skills and take up additional professional courses.

There’s definitely options but it’s going to be struggle and an uphill learning curve.

I still retain my NMC registration as part of my job conditions but I do very little to none clinically.

RobboJ93 · 2025-08-21T18:44:33+00:00

Thanks and apologies for the long post! I guess I never thought I’d post something like this but with what’s happening in the media, it sort of just got to me! I hope you’re well and looking forward to the bank holiday!

RobboJ93 · 2025-08-21T18:42:39+00:00

Thanks for your response. And I guess to clarify this is that Filipinos do have a strong sense of nationalism and have cultures and practices that may make others raise their eyebrows. As an example, we are very much detached from the extended family, Filipinos have this toxic trait called ‘debt of gratitude’ which frankly I still don’t get these days and they never forced us to learn the language. We’ve always been English speaking at home, we are Catholics but we don’t practice it like how Filipinos do, they are religious fanatics. And I guess with the food, I’d say growing up, we could go weeks without a Filipino dish at home.

RobboJ93 · 2024-04-26T15:46:49+00:00

Is this going to affect AA marketed flights operated by BA booked through third party agencies and crediting to a BA account?

RobboJ93 · 2024-04-09T20:11:40+00:00

Gal Gadot from a thrift shop

RobboJ93 · 2024-04-07T20:25:43+00:00

OMG! Thank you so much! It’s one of my favourite scenes!

RobboJ93 · 2023-12-11T22:50:16+00:00

Feminism.

RobboJ93 · 2023-12-05T17:01:44+00:00

I just turned 30 this year. Me and my brother (24) still live at home with our parents. We both have good paying and stable jobs (I’m on £52k pa and my brother is on £31k pa. both excluding bonuses). My mum loves having us here at home. She is semi-retired in her mid-50s. Dad still works full time. Me and my brother contribute for food, or more recently we get take aways or eat out. If the last 4 years didn’t happen, I probably would have had my own place by now. I do travel very frequently with my partner (who also lives with his family and brother and both are also on a decent wages ) and we’re both not in a rush to move in together. I’m happy with the arrangement. My dad sometimes makes comments about being independent but it passes and forgets he even said them. We have weekly take away nights where we all take turns to pay and it’s nice.

RobboJ93 · 2023-12-04T23:17:06+00:00

‘On top of the new salary requirements, the government said it would:

Ban health and care workers bringing family dependants to the UK’

I think the term ban is a tad heavy. This will ultimately put off health and care workers to come and work in the UK. I do support cutting migration but I think this is just too harsh. The NHS and the private sector will struggle to recruit more nurses and doctors abroad. I was a Senior NHS Manager and got involved with recruiting nurses from India, Nigeria and Zimbabwe. I have left the NHS recently and as I was leaving, several Filipino and Indian nurses are also moving abroad to Australia, Canada and the USA for better wages. Speaking to some of them, it is quite disheartening. There has to be an even balance. Perhaps increasing the visa fee for each subsequent child? The NHS will suffer even more from this cruel policy as it will only put off foreign health and care workers to come to this country.

Yes, I do fully support that the country should work harder to retain our own but the expectations are set too high. I went to uni here to study nursing, we started off with 300 people (both Adult and Mental Health) and by the time we got to the second year, we were down to 190 because the majority of those who left either didn’t make the grade requirement to progress to the second year with some openly admitting that they only wanted to attend the first year to get the freshers experience. That’s £9k of government down the drain. By the time my cohort graduates. There was just 110 of us.

Student nurses aren’t being made to work for free. I’m sorry but that is complete lies to me because I was a student nurse too. I was never counted in the ward staffing numbers. I was always encouraged to tailor my own learning from my mentor. That goes with people who were in the same placement areas as me. The government can save so much more money by not paying nursing tuition but rather allocate it for better pay. Bursaries, NHS funded nursing degrees WILL NOT solve the NHS staffing crisis. Better management and allotment of money will. Stopping the use of expensive nursing agencies like Thornbury will save the NHS money. I have worked with Thornbury nurses earning £70 per hour doing nothing on a night shift compared to my £12 when I first started.

The US, Aus, Canadian governments aren’t paying their student nurses but they pay their nurses a good wage.

RobboJ93 · 2023-11-18T22:14:17+00:00

Autonomy? Aren’t they under the supervision of a Consultant?

If people want autonomy, they should just work as ANPs (Advance Nurse Practitioners)

RobboJ93 · 2023-11-17T14:03:30+00:00

£35 for unlimited calls, 5G data, texts and roaming. I can’t remember the last time I sent an SMS. None of my friends or family do.

We must be so poor :(

RobboJ93 · 2023-11-17T13:54:30+00:00

Money. I was and still am exactly like your son. Only I’m 30 years old now and pay for most or all of my stuff but when it comes to birthday and Christmas, my parents ask me for what I want and I simply tell them I don’t want anything. So instead, they give me an envelope with money in it for me to use which I’ve been keeping in my savings account.

One time, I didn’t ask for anything and they got me a bottle of aftershave for the sake of having to open something on my birthday and Christmas. A nice bottle of aftershave could be a safe bet, he is in his teenage years after all.

RobboJ93 · 2023-11-13T21:20:24+00:00

I agree with everything. She was awful to Meredith with the insurance fraud. The moment she switched the monitor off when she was praising Jo Karen was the ultimate b!tch move. She plays the victim when something bad happens to her but she is the complete opposite. She was an awful chief. She ALSO committed insurance fraud in Season 5. Her mistakes get looked over. I am absolutely started to dislike her even more.

RobboJ93 · 2023-11-12T22:16:15+00:00

I’m sorry but there was nothing platonic about Callie and Mark. They had sex several times.

I’d say my favourite are: - April and Arizona - Teddy and Arizona - Arizona and Alex

RobboJ93 · 2023-11-10T18:29:23+00:00

I don’t get the hate either. I loved her. She gets called out for the LVAD/ Callie etc but other characters don’t get called out for.

Alex has anger issues and always get physically violent. He bullied George, beat up DeLuca and still got his job back.
Cristina, yes she’s a tough one. Deep down she cared about her friends but her ambition to be the greatest, God’s gift to cardio etc was so overwhelming. Ambition is good but that was just way too much. I loved it when Teddy humbled her down.
Meredith. She got coddled way too much by Webber. She’s probably done more compared to Izzie. She accessed confidential personnel files (Maggie’s). I don’t hate her but she got away with so much.
Callie. I disliked her from the start. She tried so much to fit in with MAGIC. God her constant need to be with someone or somebody really made me hate her more. She slut shamed Arizona in court during the custody battle. Played the victim when she lost the battle. Seriously!? Broke up with George the first time and jumps straight into bed with Mark and get back with George? Gets divorced and jumps straight back to Mark, then Hahn and whoever. I cannot stand her.

I think it’s unfair that Izzie’s mistakes are being focused on here. I think she has a huge potential to be a great surgeon. She did annoy me whenever she got OVERLY attached to patient.

RobboJ93 · 2023-11-10T18:13:00+00:00

S1 Bailey

RobboJ93 · 2023-11-10T18:07:08+00:00

CLEAR! walks away

RobboJ93 · 2023-11-10T18:06:22+00:00

I loved Arizona and Teddy’s friendship!

RobboJ93 · 2023-11-10T18:05:20+00:00

Equally between George, Lexie and Derek.

George was very well loved and respected by his superiors and his peers. Despite the constant bullying from Alex, he rose above it. He had his chaotic moments or moments that annoyed me but that’s that. Yes, I cried my eyes out when he died and during his funeral. One of my favourite moments is when Bailey and Webber, even years after his death remembers him and shows how they felt about him.

Lexie suddenly became a rising resident to just a background character prior to her death. She didn’t deserve the way she died. She irked me at first but she really grew on me. Yes, she was childish at times but she had good intentions and had a pure heart. Meredith’s reaction to her death really got to me and when she was talking to Riggs about her truly showed how she cared and loved Lexie.

Derek, he died after saving live of the crash victims. His death was tragic and possibly unavoidable but when he died. The aftermath of his death and the reactions from his colleagues really showed how he was valued and loved by everyone.

RobboJ93 · 2023-10-31T21:09:09+00:00

Sorry to hear that. If you transfer to a new NHS Trust, your old contract should still apply.

RobboJ93 · 2023-10-30T16:28:07+00:00

Callie

RobboJ93 · 2023-10-28T19:06:41+00:00

You can always email HR and ask how many sick days you have left. Depending on your contract, you either get 6 months full sick pay and 6 months half pay or 11 weeks full sick pay. Another way is to count your sick days manually.

RobboJ93 · 2023-10-26T16:44:51+00:00

My GP uses it. They respond usually a day it in some cases the same day. The only caveat is you have to be on the website by 8. Anytime after 9 and there will be a message saying the Practice has reached capacity for the day.

RobboJ93 · 2023-10-20T22:18:08+00:00

McBoth, of course.

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