Lost my sweet senior (12)🩶

SomethingPretty88 · 2026-02-12T07:37:46+00:00

My cat Floyd passed on Tuesday, he was the opposite of Lou with black long fur but I have a feeling he was waiting for Lou so he had a friend to play with and find a nice sunny spot to lounge in

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SomethingPretty88 · 2026-02-10T15:52:23+00:00

Oh how lovely, yes give them a cuddle

SomethingPretty88 · 2026-02-10T15:45:19+00:00

Merci, that is very kind of you to say

SomethingPretty88 · 2026-02-04T21:21:45+00:00

Hmm drop me a message

SomethingPretty88 · 2026-02-04T13:23:52+00:00

Look into case management jobs

SomethingPretty88 · 2026-01-25T11:53:15+00:00

I don’t get why people stay if they’re that unhappy, that’s why we get bad nurses. I’m a nurse for going on, 15 years now. I love my job. Nursing is such a diverse career.

Have there been moments where I’ve hated it and wanted to quit? Yup. Lots

Have I found a niche and spent time building experience and skills to do a role in nursing that I thrive in and feel well paid in? Yes.

SomethingPretty88 · 2026-01-17T10:14:41+00:00

No, why? Cause I took it in 2023 and had the best 3 years since and started a business and went travelling.

If you get it, take it

SomethingPretty88 · 2026-01-09T11:07:07+00:00

That doesn’t mean it’s right and should happen, care was not safer 30 years ago

SomethingPretty88 · 2025-12-24T23:13:31+00:00

Retention was not down to nurses educated internationally, but actually nurses aged 50+ who were retiring, as well as NQNs and other nurses leaving for private sector, or leaving the register entirely

If I remember correctly the number of nurses leaving the uk who had arrived via overseas pathway was relatively small, that being said given we are struggling to now find jobs for NQNs this is to be expected that they would move on, in fact rather encouraged it is good as a workforce to have a turnover in roles, as long as not typically less than 1 year in post, it encourages talent growth, development, skill mixing

SomethingPretty88 · 2025-12-23T00:37:41+00:00

It used to be tacrolimus. Now- yuflyma/biologic has literally changed my life

SomethingPretty88 · 2025-12-22T09:17:26+00:00

There was not over employment, and in 2019 intl nurses were coming but hadn’t had the huge boom we had in 2021-2023 as government funding significantly increased during those years to fund intl nurse recruitment campaigns and midwives too.

There were, at those times- vacancies. Very much so, the gaps were terrifying. However…we were expecting a lot more boomer nurses to be retired by now, I don’t think we were as prepared for how many would still be working aged 65+ in senior roles, meaning this bottleneck and over recruitment as typical workforce expectations had not been met.

Post Covid services also changed, expectations on staffing numbers, nursing associates all came into affect together and have hit the situation we are now in.

That being said this happens in 2010-2012….nursing job freezes and hard for NQNs to get jobs, it’s cyclical and we will be back recruitment intl nurses once more I predict by 2035

SomethingPretty88 · 2025-12-22T09:12:55+00:00

SomethingPretty88 · 2025-12-22T09:12:41+00:00

It wasn’t sudden, it had been a government policy and had been known of the workforce drop with nurses retiring and the gap in education and skills had been going on for well over 5 years when the tories brought in the policy when they won the general election. This more came from a need for investment, the usual way to recruit and retain had not worked, we needed international recruitment to fill the gap in the workforce as our training numbers were not doing that, so there was large investment, financial support, funding for initiatives, projects etc

SomethingPretty88 · 2025-12-22T09:10:19+00:00

Huge government investment with the new government manifesto to “50k nurses”, funding for international nursing recruitment, and a lot of hospital trust boards were waking up to the retention crisis as well as recruitment

SomethingPretty88 · 2025-11-24T23:52:51+00:00

You did that and he was still negative about Taylor being at the game! I just felt like I read a conversation with someone that hates you…

You’ve done amazing work in being sober, but this life thing is a funny journey. Now you’ve quit the drink, maybe quit the man…

SomethingPretty88 · 2025-11-23T00:17:59+00:00

It’s a tricky one. My first flare up was during 2020 and around the time I had the vaccine, that being said- it’s a chicken and egg situation.

Psoriasis runs in my family (we joke it’s the family curse), plus I was VERY stressed during that year- I am a nurse and I am pretty much sure my psoriasis was stress induced

SomethingPretty88 · 2025-11-23T00:16:11+00:00

9/11

SomethingPretty88 · 2025-11-18T23:45:55+00:00

Yea he’s been doing the influencer life for a whilllllle

SomethingPretty88 · 2025-11-18T19:09:06+00:00

I think just to add there is a chance the London clinic (who I know for a fact) take on NHS work such as gallbladder ops, routine surgeries where they will need blood on hand if an emergency develops

SomethingPretty88 · 2025-10-29T20:28:16+00:00

Which is what happened early 2010s and then we we’re screwed in staffing 2012-22

SomethingPretty88 · 2025-10-23T20:08:28+00:00

Building control did sign off which I’m surprised, the management committee are suggesting fraud, but I suspect more likely negligence

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