Registered Nurses/Nursing Students Chat Thread

Made to do maths on the spot in an interview today. Not bloody impressed.

That was the one part of the interview I was confident about and they didn't ask, typical!

oooo, whats the ITU course like? I'm applying straight for ITU jobs as a NQ and have been told i'll be placed on the Msc in ITU/critical care after 6 months.

Just handed in my assignment... now I'm free for 5 weeks before starting 3rd year. Eek!

All the hospitals I applied for ITU wait until you're ready for the ITU course, I wouldn't have been ready 6months post qualifying, there's so many other things to learn first. We have to have completed the first two respiratory and cardiovascular manchester competency books and the haemofiltration course and competencies. I was lucky, I've done the haemo course but I've not completed all the competencies, but my manager had noone else for the place and felt I'd be able to cope.

Where I work there's no pressure to do the course if you don't want to because experience counts for as much as a course does if you want to stay at the same hospital. I want to do it to allow me to progress within ITU throughout my career because unfortunately experience doesn't always look as good on a CV without a course or additional qualifications. I love where I work, I get a good rounded ITU experience as we're home to the NSIC and a high tech burns unit, so we often get cases flown in from around the country for these reasons.

I'm doing the course at Oxford Brookes, it's 1yr part time broken into 3 modules with an exam for the first module, OSCEs and an essay. I start on 21st September so I'll let you know how it goes. x

My next placement is ITU... eek... scary!!

Ohh, you looking forward to it? I put ITU as one of my elective choices.

Nervous, not sure what to expect, but hopefully it'll be a really good learning opportunity. Nervous about third year too. Terrified about being really poor... and not having a job (appealing unfair dismissal because i apparently didn't turn up to a shift... which is pure crap!) is not going to help the ****ty degree financial situation... should just stick with diploma really

Isnt it actually quite scary!? Like waiting to start 1st year all over again! lol

Hi guys,

Had some bad news recently. My dad has been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer- will be carrying on looking after group, BUT apologies for those who've had delayed join requests! We don't know what stage he's at yet, and hoping it's an early stage- we'll be finding out soon, so fingers crossed. However the hospital aren't necessarily rushing to get him admitted or have tests/treatment yet- so that can only be a good thing, right?

On the plus side- had two job offers! One in bristol for an MAU ward and an ITU job in oxford....!!

Hi guys,

Had some bad news recently. My dad has been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer- will be carrying on looking after group, BUT apologies for those who've had delayed join requests! We don't know what stage he's at yet, and hoping it's an early stage- we'll be finding out soon, so fingers crossed. However the hospital aren't necessarily rushing to get him admitted or have tests/treatment yet- so that can only be a good thing, right?

On the plus side- had two job offers! One in bristol for an MAU ward and an ITU job in oxford....!!

I can only ditto what i said over on the student nurse forum Anna but i hope you're ok and we're all here if need people who arent family etc to talk to . Be thinking of you and your family.
Congratulations on the job offers.

Also, anyone got any really good tips on how to pick a dissertation topic that isn't going to make me want to hate nursing by the end of it lol??

My next placement is ITU and we've been told to pick a topic related to the placement and use our mentors and the placement for help and advice with the topic..