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From what little I’ve gleaned from the few UK nurses I’ve talked to over the years–nurses over there have the shit end of the stick. I would not want to be a nurse over there… There’s complicated levels of licensure, they are responsible for housekeeping (cleaning the room between pts–a corollary to that is that here in the USA, nursing is usually included in the room charge–along with housekeeping).
I would really like to take a tour of a health care facility in UK sometime–just to see.
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It’s not particularly unpleasant to be a nurse in the UK. The nursing shortage is actually a little less severe there than in the US, and that’s even considering the NHS payscale. The licensing bit is a pain though, sayeth my stepmother.