Healthcare Workers Unite - All nurses, HCA's, Students, Midwifes etc WELCOME

[lozzy21]

Id be classed as a HCA if i worked for the NHS. Im a support worker for a private company. I work with adults with learning disabilitys and mental health issues who have challenging behaviour.

 

[luvbunsazzle]

Id be classed as a HCA if i worked for the NHS. Im a support worker for a private company. I work with adults with learning disabilitys and mental health issues who have challenging behaviour.

I use to do that, for young adults and servere challenging behaviour!! I loved it!!

 

[lozzy21]

I work with ages 30-64.

 

[Panda_Ally]

Can I join??

I'm a 2nd yearnursing student, I should be nearly qualifing but i took 10 months maternity leave when i had holly!

I've just finished my final block of theory for this year and then start on a cardiac sugrery ward on thurs and im absolutly bricking it!!! I've had loads of clinic/ GP practice experience recently but havent been on a hospital word in over 2 years and NEVER been on a surgical ward!!! EEK!!!!

I love the job tho!! xx

I did very little medicine and no clinics while I was training. I think they were training me to be a surgical nurse.

I think this sometime, I think they r training me to be a clinic nurse... The placements you get as a student have a massive impact on where you end up when qualified... i wonder if they realise that??? My uni seem intent of letting me experience every kind of obscure nursing (needle exchange for homeless people for example) but have neglected what i would call 'proper nursing' on the wards in a Hospital.... and rant over!!! LMAO!!!

 

[orange-sox]

Hello everyone, how are we all? I'm still recovering from my first night of three and feeling a bit worse for wear, I was hoping for a steady night last night, and spent all night running between two patients in restraint after restraint after restraint and my whole body aches!

I have a new gross sight - I actually heaved, I have a patient who's self harmed, and slashed up their arm like a christmas ham, you know with the big crosshatch pattern and the bulging flesh? Urgh it looks vile and the patient keeps reopening it and biting it all and eating it - that's not a typo btw, my patient is a self cannibal! Even writing it down it sounds too vile to be true, it's not the gore element, I've seen way worse lacerations (arterial spray all over your clothes anyone? ;-)). Think it's the fact it was done on purpose, they are so insistant on leaving at they way; and they're eating their own flesh that makes it so stomach churning!

Sorry if anyone finds that a bit too explicitly gross

 

[luvbunsazzle]

ewgh that is just disgusting and made me bulk just reading it.
Well we have a patient at the moment, who is intent on eating his own feaces!! YUCK

This week has been so mad and stressful, short staffed, not getting out on time, and when i do leave, have a patient trying to get out the door, another patient trying to climb out the window, and im ameant to be on a stroke ward with some medical beds!!

 

[lozzy21]

I dont envy you orange sox, i though it was bad enough having to change urine soaked beds, never used to bother me before i go pregnant but now i cant do it, makes me puke.

 

[coccyx]

Community palliative care nurse, worked nights for macmillan cancer charity prior to moving out here.

 

[mrscupcake]

Hey girls i'm a qualified staff nurse, i work in the community 5 hrs a week and im a full time post RN student midwife! I go back to my nurse job in sept and to midwifery in Nov, I just have 4 months of the course left, its relentless...not looking forward to going back xx

 

[topazicatzbet]

that is gross orange-sox. dont blame you for heaving.

im so not looking forward to going back to work in sept

 

[ryder]

I am in Canada and I am a HCA in our local hospital. I work on a busy medical unit, we have about 44 beds sometimes we get more though. I would like to complete my nursing once my kids are a bit older and in school, we've just recently got a bridging program for HCA's to upgrade.

 

[babybear]

You see, people keep asking me how I can do my job, but its great the patients are asleep by the time they get to me. yes we cut big chunks out of them but its all controlled. I really couldn't go back to the wards not at all.

 

[MandaAnda]

I think most nurses have their little niche that they work best in. I trained as a children's nurse because I just don't have a knack with big people. And while I do like paediatrics even, I love my neonates and wouldn't be anywhere else now. It can be terribly emotional, but it's so rewarding. However, according to my husband all I do is cuddle new babies all day! If only!

 

[muddles]

I don't belong in this section but just wanted to say what a fab job you students do. I had a student midwife with me for my labour and she was brilliant! She really calmed me down when I panicked.

 

[Josie87]

Hello all,
Just stumbled across this forum and wanted to say hi! I am a student midwife at the end of my first year! Its been a crazy year but I am loving it!

 

[charlotteb24]

Can I come and lurk on here? I'm a hospital porter working on an assesment ward so I don't do the nursing bits an bobs but I do help patients to and from places and it's amazing what you pick up! Lol!

Just want to say that nurses do a fab job and however much somedays I thibk I would love to be a nurse, I just don't think I could stomach some of it! And I've seen a fair bit of gore and stuff lol!

 

[Elski]

Hello ladies just wondering if any of you can answer a question for me? I'm a RTP midwife with a 7m old baby, going back to work in September for 2 days a week and will be doing 'long days' (12.5hr shifts). I've thought long and hard about childcare and family life and all the other stuff that needs thinking about and I think it would be best if I did these long shifts as 2 nights rather than days and LO can be with a childminder for a few hours the following morning until around lunch time, so I can grab a few hours sleep. Do any of you do this? How's it working out for you?

Thanks

 

[MandaAnda]

I'm going back in September as well. I'll be working full time long days and occasional nights. I work on a neonatal unit. I'm lucky that my husband can look after the baby. But I just wanted to say that a lot of returning mums on the units I've worked on have come back part time nights like you're suggesting. Wish I could just go back part time! One day.

 

[Eala]

Hi all, just seen this thread!

I'm a student nurse (adult branch), on mat leave at the moment. I go back on 26th July to do a 4 week placement I had to miss when I was pregnant, then I start second year at the end of September.

Just found out my placement is on an Acute stroke ward, eek! Bit of a baptism of fire for getting back into it, am slightly scared

 

[trumpetbum]

Eala, Sweet calley high BN/BANS? Glasgow or UWS? I'm the 4th in my class to be pregnant through the 3 years, all boy babies I'm the only one who waited long enough to not go on mat leave though (daft maybe ). I'm sure you'll be fine.