What does it mean to be a mental health nurse and what are the challenges and rewards? Two RMNs explain what being a mental health nurse means, from their perspective.
There are over 20,000 care homes in the UK. That’s a lot of care home jobs! Plus, there are nursing and social care jobs within domiciliary care and home healthcare. We look at what each offers the nursing job seeker, and how they are defined.
Stephanie is an outpatients nurse with a great deal of nursing experience, especially in elderly care and agency work. So we asked her if she’d be happy to help give us a clearer understanding of her job, her views on nursing elderly patients and on the issues facing the agency nurse.
As an experienced Accident and Emergency nurse Sarah is expected to think and assess quickly and that remains one of the key challenges of the job, as well as one of its most rewarding aspects.
Heather works as a band 5 thromboprophylaxis nurse specialist. She gives us an insight into the differences between the NHS and the private healthcare sectors, and how the NHS could cut wastage.
