fed up - is it worth it (student nurse)

emma_b_4

dont post on here often i am a lurker! i read all the threads!

im a student nurse about to finish my first year
my last placement wasnt very good , i did enjoy it but the morale of staff was sooo low due to job cuts and all the budget stuff, wards closing etc. i kind of let it go over my head and thought oh well ive two years to go things will all change

then got up today and first thing on local news was that wards are closig at mid yorkshire trust, where i am doing pment and hopefully wer i would work. i know one of childrens wards has closed and the staff are being moved around to fit them in somewer so they still have a job

i have just felt all day whats the point of soing this, i left a 17k a year job and am making my 30yr old fiance wait to get married, have holidays and live life due to being skint! and hes now saying what im thinking..whats the point? will i have a job?

also i have recently had a miscarriage and now i just feel so broddy and feel i wanna concentrate on my home life and 'family'... oh i dont know.....im just fed up and have lost my motivation..

the students that are qualifying this yr in child branch that i saw on pment none had a job and my friend is qualifying now without a job to go to

im fed up and dont know what to think or do...

any1 else feeling the same?

DrFluffy

Can you go and speak to some one at your University's Advice and Counselling service about hte course stuff, and ask your GP to refer you to a bereavement counsellor? You need to try to deal with your miscarriage before making any decisions about the rest of your life, else you might make a knee-jerk decision you then go on to regret.

Hugs and good luck.

emma_b_4

hi and thankyou, the mc has affected the way i am looking at my life now, i just want to start my family, which might sound really sad and i can understand that..i would have thought the same 9 mths ago..

i am wanting to go and talk to my tutors and see what they say about the nursing situation..although who can predict the future?#

do any other students feel like me and just wander if its worth it sometimes?

DrFluffy

I know how you feel. I'm studying medicine and we've been told not to expect a job at the end of it, and to prepare outselves to take what every we are offered - even if it is in the Outer Hebrides!

I know people reading medicine at Kings, who haven't got jobs yet, and are now only being offered positions in Grimsby. Sucks a lot if you have family etc or ties to London. What is even more annoying is that you accumulate more debt studying in London but yet are not guarenteed a job here (unlike the old application system).

Hopefully it will all be sorted by the time I graduate. I just wish the Government would stop messing with things that aren't broken, in order to put in another 'target' in a vain attempt to make themselves look proactive!!!

emma_b_4

its not that im expecting a job to fall into my lap, its just the wandering if there will be any!!

when i applied it was the NHS are great to work for and you have got a job for life...hmmmmm..is that still the case?!

i would be prepared to travel a bit or move but not totally relocate but i know some ppl will have to

chicken66_2

You're 1/3 of the way there, even if it doesn't get you exactly where you want to go it is still a qualification....this is the justification i used to myself in my first year at uni, it helped me through the rest of the years (although had i known before that it'd take me 4 years to complete it may not have!)

emma_b_4

by xmas ill be halfway there!
thats my mantra

Snow_Angel

emma_b - I know how you feel about the job situation. I am about to go into my final year of a physiotherapy degree. Currently 93% of this current years graduates and 50 from last year do not have a job to go to. In physiotherapy there are also many vacancy freezes and shuffling due to NHS budget deficits, PCT emphasis etc.

Two weeks ago 500 physiotherapy students, with the backing of our governing body the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, went to lobby parliament on the day Patricia Hewitt was in the House - they also each got a meeting with their own MP. I think it's done a lot to highlight the problem to some of them who didn't even realise how huge a problem it was! I know this will not be resolved by the time I graduate but we have to start somewhere with attempting to get the problem recognised and resolved. What are the Royal College of Nursing doing about this?

Incidentally DrFluffy, what's wrong with going to Grimsby??? - at least these people have a job! It may only mean short-term weekly commuting. I know about 1800 physio students who would kill for a job in Grimsby!

I do agree though that you need to sort out your other (and in the bigger picture more important?) issues. Losing a baby can't be the easiest thing to deal with and, in my personal experience, all the stresses that you have just add up to make one big stress. I personally have used my university counselling service before and they were an invaluable help - I can't praise them enough....plus as they are a student service they are free! How much could you be charged if you weren't a student for their time? Use them....they're there for you.

Good luck and keep your fingers crossed for me at the end of this year.

DrFluffy

Snow_Angel wrote:

Incidentally DrFluffy, what's wrong with going to Grimsby??? - at least these people have a job! It may only mean short-term weekly commuting. I know about 1800 physio students who would kill for a job in Grimsby!

With a significant other and child living in London and not being able to move with you? For a speciality you really do not enjoy? Nothing I guess.

Plus I always wonder who put the Grim in Grimsby

millie

A relative has just finished a 3 year degree in nursing, he does not get his results until the end of September. He wants to go into intensive care, the hospital that he has been training at want him, but because the interview takes place before he ges his results he cant go for the interview. there are no other jobs he has tried all over the country. After 3 years training he has got a job in a bar, what a waste.

Snow_Angel

DrFluffy wrote:

With a significant other and child living in London and not being able to move with you? For a speciality you really do not enjoy? Nothing I guess.

Plus I always wonder who put the Grim in Grimsby

I thought newly qualified med students did rotations first and didn't specialise at first?
I know of a newly qualified physio who was commuting from London to the West country every Monday and Friday with a wife and child in London. He'll have to do that for 18 months until he can get senior posts and move back.