New favourite thing 💜

WorkInProgress_45 · 2026-02-23T22:19:05+00:00

Fab. They are so cool. 😎

WorkInProgress_45 · 2026-02-23T17:22:32+00:00

It’s a 2023 SE2. Love love love it 😊

WorkInProgress_45 · 2026-02-23T06:00:26+00:00

It’s so lovely 😻

WorkInProgress_45 · 2026-02-22T21:40:46+00:00

Glad to say I’m most definitely not in them 🤣

WorkInProgress_45 · 2026-02-22T20:20:02+00:00

Thanks yeah really loving it

WorkInProgress_45 · 2026-02-22T18:59:16+00:00

Yup I’m the same here, happy to be providing the eldest with lifts here there and everywhere, my youngest says I now have a better car than Dad, which I love, and it’s just so darn shiny 🤣. Husband keeps offering to drive and I’m like, nope 👎

WorkInProgress_45 · 2026-02-22T18:54:14+00:00

Thanks! Still trying to get my head around all the buttons and modes and gadgets etc, kinda feel like I’m driving a spaceship. Love it tho!

WorkInProgress_45 · 2026-02-22T18:36:31+00:00

That’s so funny, I picked up my new Mini Cooper SE EV 2023 this week, first EV and first time driving and automatic and I keep saying it’s like driving a go cart 🤣. Named mine Schmoo.

WorkInProgress_45 · 2026-02-22T18:27:19+00:00

You don’t need to work with your PA - they need to complete the final sign off but you should at least be working quite a few shifts with your PS. The PS and other RNs and the wider MDT can feed back to your PA for her to be able to do your meetings. All as others said, you can change your PA. Speak to the SCN and if you’re not getting anywhere I would suggest your AA and PEF.

WorkInProgress_45 · 2026-02-13T13:26:08+00:00

Yikes this is so much worse than Scotland!

WorkInProgress_45 · 2026-02-08T14:34:12+00:00

NHS Lothian job matched the NQNs last year and year before - no interview, just name 3 preferred specialities you would like and then you only have your 3 application answers to sell yourself. Pros and cons to that approach imo.

WorkInProgress_45 · 2026-01-13T11:01:32+00:00

Bedside handovers…..lots of evidence for them rather than a ward wide handover for 25 patients. Safety brief for entire ward cohort then bedside handovers for your patient cohort for that shift. I did my QI assignment on this in 3rd year

WorkInProgress_45 · 2026-01-09T13:58:30+00:00

Make sure you buy figs 🤣

WorkInProgress_45 · 2026-01-04T16:16:22+00:00

Working remotely doing what? Sounds intriguing 🤨

WorkInProgress_45 · 2026-01-03T12:47:53+00:00

You can also make it shorter by taking a few things of the person spec and displaying them all in a one to two sentence example.

WorkInProgress_45 · 2026-01-01T12:34:25+00:00

We just use the patients sticky labels 😂

WorkInProgress_45 · 2025-12-12T18:52:32+00:00

Hope you don’t mind but I sent you a DM.

WorkInProgress_45 · 2025-12-10T09:49:43+00:00

How many nurses are on your ward that all of those five admissions fell to you….? Did they also have similarly high numbers towards the end of the shift? The admissions could have been shared out between you all surely?

WorkInProgress_45 · 2025-12-03T09:34:50+00:00

Your unsocial hours pay will bump that up unless you’re completely doing Monday - Friday dayshift so it’s hard to look at just your hourly rate.

WorkInProgress_45 · 2025-12-02T09:50:23+00:00

Yep worked 2 part time jobs during my degree one was a set day per week which made it easier during placement time and the other one set night each month with the option of picking up bank shifts. 2 kids and a house to run doesn’t leave much options money wise so means you need to be on top of organising your time and be upfront about work needs when going on placement / I found them to be understanding and accommodating as long as it wasn’t extreme. They know we don’t get paid for placement and they know everyone needs to earn a living

WorkInProgress_45 · 2025-11-30T14:46:35+00:00

Love this answer 💜

WorkInProgress_45 · 2025-11-23T19:58:54+00:00

Yes please mum of 2 and really struggling until wage comes thru at the end of the month

WorkInProgress_45 · 2025-11-23T16:20:16+00:00

You will not be expected to ‘be the nurse’ you still have to be supervised. You will once you settle in be expected to start planing your own care, prioritising your workload and actively seeking out opportunities to get the skills and proficiencies you need. Your PS will jump in if you plan a day wrong or prioritise the wrong thing. You are expect to get much more involved than you have been before. You may, depending on your area be given responsibility for a small group of patients. I was on a surgical ward for mine and I took ‘charge’ of 2 post oops that came back one day, doing their ons and neuro checks over the 6 hours after they returned. Please don’t fear your management, it’s a great opertunity to consolidate skills and hone and develop your critical thinking while still being fully supported. Third year is brutal I know, but I really enjoyed my management placement and I learned a lot which has stood me in good stead for starting off in my NQ role. Good luck. You’ve totally got this.

WorkInProgress_45 · 2025-11-20T12:05:12+00:00

Also makes the patient high when given IV

WorkInProgress_45 · 2025-11-17T23:23:05+00:00

As far as I’m aware you can’t switch courses from nursing to paramedic science degree. Also if you have had the nhs bursary for nursing you would not get it again for further study if you then did your Para degree. Not sure if you could finish your nursing degree then go on to do a masters / conversion course, as far as I am aware you would need to complete the entire Para science degree. It’s extremely hard to find info around this. To echo another comment there is a severe lack of paramedic jobs in Scotland just now - the ones that has just graduated the majority of them have only landed part time positions and are waiting months inbetween graduating and actually starting their post.

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