I'm a Mental Health nurse who wants to get out of nursing....

jobbingmusician

Volunteer for your local Mind association, learn more about community support for people with MH problems, and see if you can get a job with your local Mind? (Likely to pay a bit less, though.........)

Buellguy

LL30 wrote: »

CAMHS Tier 2/3? Relates to your current job but not in a nursing capacity.

Only problem with CAMHS (my BH is an RMN) is that very often (well ALL the ones she's looked at) the jobs require (certainly round here anyway) previous CAMHS experience, so bit of a catch 22, she wouldn't mind doing it but with no previous she can't even get an interview

Joe_L

Croatoan wrote: »

Perhaps if it is the politics side of nursing you hate, agency work might be easier for you, Joe? Not that it doesn't have its downsides I admit.

Actually about a year into my nursing, I went the route of working as agency and for all the reasons you mentioned. I then got a very good substantive NHS job, but, as expected, the politics and crap management forced me out. After a year working for a charity, I worked as a bank nurse for the same team most of time and that was probably my problem, as I got worn down with the usual BS, when I should've moved on.

When I left there a couple of years ago I sort of developed a nursing phobia. My reg runs out this Feb and if I don't get some work, that's me finished as a nurse. Problem is I'm too old and broke to train for anything else. Not sure where you're based, I'm near Watford, but I'd be grateful if you could recommend an agency to me by PM. Cheers.

Bikerbob_2

Hey Guys.

Reading this thread has spurred me on to register on here. I'm not alone!:)

I'm also a R/N, am in my late 30's and can't abide being a nurse, to the near point of becoming a 'phobia' as you folks put it. I qualified around 3 years ago and have worked in acute and rehab settings. I started to hate nursing so much that I have recently quit my job and am currently unemployed. The usual things, low moral, politics and frustrations have driven me out and I currently feel I no longer want to be a nurse. Despite constantly hearing 'how caring I am', 'what a good nurse I am' etc I have just lost heart.

The thing is, I have no clue as to what I do want to do?

tonyh66

christ on a bike, I think you all need to suck it in a bit. You should think yourselves lucky to be in a reasonably paid profession and not working for NMW in some sh*it hole sweatshop. My wife has been a nurse for over 13 years, sometimes she's hated it and sometimes she's loved it.
Your all going to struggle to find anything better, especially if your on £45K thats like band 7, if you were working for a trust you would be on nearly half that (I doubt you have made band 7 in 3 years).

Croatoan

tonyh66 wrote: »

christ on a bike, I think you all need to suck it in a bit. You should think yourselves lucky to be in a reasonably paid profession and not working for NMW in some sh*it hole sweatshop. My wife has been a nurse for over 13 years, sometimes she's hated it and sometimes she's loved it.
Your all going to struggle to find anything better, especially if your on £45K thats like band 7, if you were working for a trust you would be on nearly half that (I doubt you have made band 7 in 3 years).

You may be right. But a good wage and good conditions, and I have admitted to having both, doesn't actually make the job itself any more enjoyable in the same way that I'm guessing there's good money to be made clubbing baby seals but that wouldn't mean I'd enjoy doing it.

esuhl

tonyh66 wrote: »

christ on a bike, I think you all need to suck it in a bit. You should think yourselves lucky to be in a reasonably paid profession and not working for NMW in some sh*it hole sweatshop. My wife has been a nurse for over 13 years, sometimes she's hated it and sometimes she's loved it.
Your all going to struggle to find anything better, especially if your on £45K thats like band 7, if you were working for a trust you would be on nearly half that (I doubt you have made band 7 in 3 years).

Mohammed on a speedboat, I think if your profession has become a "phobia" there could be plenty of jobs where you could "do better". No one was suggesting that the OP should try to get a job in a sweatshop! And he/she even said that a drop to less than half the current remuneration would be feasible.

Money might be the only thing that matters to you, but there are other factors to consider...

Croatoan

Bikerbob wrote: »

Hey Guys.

Reading this thread has spurred me on to register on here. I'm not alone!:)

I'm also a R/N, am in my late 30's and can't abide being a nurse, to the near point of becoming a 'phobia' as you folks put it. I qualified around 3 years ago and have worked in acute and rehab settings. I started to hate nursing so much that I have recently quit my job and am currently unemployed. The usual things, low moral, politics and frustrations have driven me out and I currently feel I no longer want to be a nurse. Despite constantly hearing 'how caring I am', 'what a good nurse I am' etc I have just lost heart.

The thing is, I have no clue as to what I do want to do?

I wonder if it's a bloke thing
Actually it's not, I know loads of female nurses who were it not for the mortgage and lack of jobs would be gone in a shot.

tonyh66

Croatoan wrote: »

I wonder if it's a bloke thing
Actually it's not, I know loads of female nurses who were it not for the mortgage and lack of jobs would be gone in a shot.

and the generous sick pay and the pension....

I would club baby seals for £45K (not happily), but im too busy earning a lot less than half of that doing 12hr shifts in a 'sweatshop'. I can understand that nursing can be an absolute stress, but its how you deal with it. Don't let your training go to waste, you do good things, a lot more than 99% of the population do, and yes you probably get very little recognition for it, especially being in mental health.
To be honest I don't know where you could go from nursing unless you have other qualifications, what is your non nursing degree in?
As for alternative medicine, is there such thing as genuine qualifications, its all snake oil and placebo's.

Croatoan

Agency worker, so no sick pay and no NHS final salary pension scheme for me I'm afraid - I think about a third of nurses work in the private sector so the idea that we're all lazing about on the sick while being paid a full wage and retiring early to the Bahamas is a myth.

I'm a bit of a sceptic as far as most alternative medicine is concerned and there really does seem a lot of snake oil out there. Then again if I can charge a small fortune for nonsense like Reiki it might be worth joining the legions of conmen coining it in after a few hours of training.
But, if I want to keep some dignity and remain honest then it's a serious five or six years of training at great expense, and at my age I don't know if it's worth it.