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> Am currently working as a Nursing assistant in Norwich on an acute
> ward serving the city.
>
> I intend to do my staff nurse training sometime in 2005 and would like
> to do this outside Norwich (maybe somewhere in London): If anyone has
> any information or advice on good places to train I would be very
> grateful if they would share it.
>
> I would also be very grateful if anyone posted their opinions on what
> kind of trust are good to train with in terms of developing Nursing
> skill + experience and providing a broad view of different services.
> Im thinking of factors such as: Underesourced trust with high
> turnover VS. Well resourced Trust OR Trust serving large city
> population VS. Trust serving smaller population.
>
> Factors I am not so concerned about are the potentially crippling debt
> at the end of my training and having to work very hard.
>
> Thanks
>
> Sam

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> sam wrote in message
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> > Am currently working as a Nursing assistant in Norwich on an acute
> > ward serving the city.
> >
> > I intend to do my staff nurse training sometime in 2005 and would like
> > to do this outside Norwich (maybe somewhere in London): If anyone has
> > any information or advice on good places to train I would be very
> > grateful if they would share it.
> >
> > I would also be very grateful if anyone posted their opinions on what
> > kind of trust are good to train with in terms of developing Nursing
> > skill + experience and providing a broad view of different services.
> > Im thinking of factors such as: Underesourced trust with high
> > turnover VS. Well resourced Trust OR Trust serving large city
> > population VS. Trust serving smaller population.
> >
> > Factors I am not so concerned about are the potentially crippling debt
> > at the end of my training and having to work very hard.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Sam
>
> I am an adult RN, not MH, but London was like a USMC boot camp for me. I
> went to Greenwich, and it was hell at times, scary occasioanlly, but at
> least we had plenty of cheap beer available in the dodgy off-licences due
to
> the local populace. The resource problems teach efficiency, delegation and
> prioritisation. The city population teaches management and accomodation of
> diversity, and also the range and complexity of community services
required
> for people with a large variety of health problems.
>
> Personally, and this is now going back a few years as I graduated in 98,
> the better Universities and the central teaching hospitals actually
> appeared to be a step or three behind the district general hospitals in
> terms of their nursing development and innovation. I will probably be shot
> for saying that, but it was true, although this is impression and
> observation of practice when I transferred patients to them.
>
> Best of luck!
>
> Richard
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> www.nursingdiagnosis.com
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