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Quote: Leevil @ November 28 2009, 4:56 PM GMT

Misses Leevil recently qualified as a Learning Disabilities Nurse and is having a hard time finding vacancies for a job. Unlike the amount of General Nurses which there seems to be a lot of. So, yes. I don't think that would be a problem.

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Andrea, two of my friends are nurses in Suffolk and they both say there is a shortage there. There are lots of picturesque villages there too. http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/suffolk.html

What is a Learning Disabilities Nurse Lee? I've heard of Learning Disabilities Teachers but not nurses.

Good to know. Thanks Loop. Ideally, I'd like to be a nurse that cares for children with serious illnesses. There aren't enough nice ones in that field.

Quote: Loopey @ November 28 2009, 5:01 PM GMT

What is a Learning Disabilities Nurse Lee? I've heard of Learning Disabilities Teachers but not nurses.

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Like a General Nurse but for people with Learning Disabilities Concentrates more on mental health, challenging behaviour and also administers medication, because the Care Workers in Care Homes aren't allowed too. A specialised Nurse, basically.

Quote: Leevil @ November 28 2009, 5:11 PM GMT

Like a General Nurse but for people with Learning Disabilities Concentrates more on mental health, challenging behaviour and also administers medication, because the Care Workers in Care Homes aren't allowed too. A specialised Nurse, basically.

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Yeah yeah, I know it seemed obvious, but I had genuinely never heard of it and have worked in special needs/learning disabilites so was interested to know what you meant.

Quote: AndreaLynne @ November 28 2009, 4:54 PM GMT

I've been considering going back to school to become a nurse and possibly midwife. There's an insane demand for that here. Maybe there too.

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Might be worth looking into the situation with students, if you're serious about that. I've a few American friends who came here as students, but none of them had children. (And beware it's mind-bendingly expensive to be a foreign student in the UK.)

It's OK, Loops! Hope I explained it well enough.

Do you actually really want to leave the States, Andie? I dunno why, but I get the feeling you don't. Which is completely uhderstandable - home is home is home!

Yay! The cops are here! I wonder which set of neighbours they are after today...will it be the new family with their own built in gang? Or the children that stay out till midnight writing profanity on the basketball court with chalks? Or will it be the convicted sex offender who failed to mention he has a new car with new license plates?

*drumroll*

It's contestant number 3. Being led out of his house in cuffs as we speak.

Quote: Moonstone @ November 28 2009, 5:25 PM GMT

Do you actually really want to leave the States, Andie? I dunno why, but I get the feeling you don't. Which is completely uhderstandable - home is home is home!

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I actually do. My gran is really the only reason I am staying put.

Quote: AndreaLynne @ November 28 2009, 5:09 PM GMT

Good to know. Thanks Loop. Ideally, I'd like to be a nurse that cares for children with serious illnesses. There aren't enough nice ones in that field.

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Is that the case in the US? My experience with nurses on children's wards in London have been so different to those in the rest of the NHS - they were really caring and professional. I've found children's wards to be run far more tightly and organised too.

Quote: AndreaLynne @ November 28 2009, 5:27 PM GMT

I actually do. My gran is really the only reason I am staying put.

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Would the children's dad mind?

In my experience, the nurses are very thorough and organized, and not much in the way for comfort and cuddles. And for a lot of those kids that's what they really need and want.

Every hospital ward needs one of these:

Yeah!

Quote: AndreaLynne @ November 28 2009, 5:30 PM GMT

In my experience, the nurses are very thorough and organized, and not much in the way for comfort and cuddles. And for a lot of those kids that's what they really need and want.

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Yep! When my daughter was admitted as a baby (I stayed with her of course) I found the nurses so nice compared to the majority of old bags in maternity and surgical! They helped me with my mastitis (the midwives didn't) and would chat as they did stuff and allow me to do alot of the baby care. They must experience some really sad cases.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 28 2009, 5:29 PM GMT

Would the children's dad mind?

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The subject has come up many times. He'd most likely come with us. We are a very odd family. Mom and Dad are still married, get along great as friends, still live in the same house and raise the kids together, but just don't act married.

But for us it works.

Really, Matron!
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