mo33

Has anyone heard this rumour?? In our trust (and prob most others) lots of wards have closed down and there are really no Staff Nurse posts avail. The majority of newly qualified nurses are taking up HCA posts to keep their pensions/options open, to maintain the mortgage etc., but unfortunately won't gain any RGN experience. We've heard that if they want to practice as a staff nurse then they can do so voluntarily and in doing so gain experience, meds, taking charge etc for when (if) a post ever becomes available!! The trust will pay them £2 an hour for goodwill...............god, what is the NHS coming to?? I've lost count of the people who are after my job when/if i get my visa........ has anyone come across this??????????????

breezeboylan

Haven't heard that one but before I came away my trust was offering newly qualified 'perceptorship' . This was for 3 months and they were to be paid at much lower rate then AFC. Think it was about £15k a year and then no job after the 3 months!! This way the trust got nurses every 3 months that were paid less then the rest of us and didn't get increments!
Tracie

chzza

i take it you're on about AP hospital?? is that the case at the royal and BG too?? i'm 2nd yr at U of L. so worried bout not being able to find a job when i finish.

Silverdragon102

heard about it and think it is disgusting plus more fool the students who use it to gain RN experience because if something should go wrong they won't have any support. Not that I want anything to go wrong

wannabauzzienurse

There's a bit about this in the nursing standard

http://www.nursing-standard.co.uk/thisweek/news1.asp

mo33

chzza- I've sent you a pm!

Margaret3

bloomin heck , will take this into work tomorrow, this'll cause a storm

hedgehog-girl

Do you AP as in Arrowe Park Hospital? God if so, then thats awful. Thats where I trained and worked for my first year. So glad I came out here now.

chzza

yeah i meant Arrowe but apparently thats not where its happening. i had a placement there in 1st yr, i hated it.