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AIBU - Training as a nurse - to work in Aesthetics only!

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Wishingitwassummer · 21/12/2021 18:56

I’ve came across this a fair few times now. Student nurses completing their nursing degrees as they want to work in aesthetics (and aesthetics only).
This is just such a waste of government funding. I’m in Scotland - so we don’t pay tuition fees and the bursary is still available.
Now I know this will only be a very small minority of people who are doing this but it just doesn’t sit right with me at all.
AIBU?

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LadyCampanulaTottington · 21/12/2021 18:57

YABU its their choice where they want to work!

ichifanny · 21/12/2021 19:01

So bankers and other professions can make money but nurses can’t ? We need to look at why people think of carers and nurses this way . It’s no different to working in private clinics or hospitals after qualifying .

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Wishingitwassummer · 21/12/2021 19:01

It seems a bit deceitful to me. As I would put money on it that they didn’t tell their interviewers for the course that their aim was to have an aesthetics business.
We are crying out for nurses - and not to get our faces filled.

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penniesdimesapplespears · 21/12/2021 19:03

They can do whatever they like once qualified. I'm sure a lot move overseas too. Dp has a mate who's daughter is a covid ward nurse, she's looking to move overseas soon. I certainly would if given the opportunity.

Bubblty · 21/12/2021 19:04

Maybe they should say they have to work 1 year in the NHS once they qualify or pay back the funding?

ichifanny · 21/12/2021 19:05

Well I worked in a Covid ward and got no thanks apart from a clap , a wage raise that ended up a pay cut due to NI and expected to work a flat rate for any extra while doctors and dentists got enhanced rates . I really don’t blame nurses for leaving . We aren’t public property because of our training .

Bubblty · 21/12/2021 19:06

@ichifanny

Well I worked in a Covid ward and got no thanks apart from a clap , a wage raise that ended up a pay cut due to NI and expected to work a flat rate for any extra while doctors and dentists got enhanced rates . I really don’t blame nurses for leaving . We aren’t public property because of our training .
That's a point. Could pay them better in the NHS
MatildaTheCat · 21/12/2021 19:06

It’s a bloody hard way of joining the professional aesthetic world. I’m sure the vast majority are nhs nurses who’ve seen the opportunity and seized it.

They’d spend 3 years learning stuff that would almost entirely have no bearing whatsoever on their future goal.

ichifanny · 21/12/2021 19:06

It’s funny how it’s only predeominantly female workforces and caring jobs that are grudged earning money , no one moans when police go off to work in private security after being funded by the public .

CounsellorTroi · 21/12/2021 19:07

Seems a bit of a waste to train nurses who only want to work in an area which isn’t really healthcare at all.

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Wishingitwassummer · 21/12/2021 19:08

I think working for a year or two for the NHS should be mandatory.
I honestly have no issue with nurses making extra money. I would say go for it, and if you have given years of service then absolutely!
But walking out with a degree, only gained because you know that it’s only a matter of time before the industry becomes regulated, I find deceitful.

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Spidey66 · 21/12/2021 19:09

I can see your point, but you could say the same for any nurse who spent their career working privately.

Mrsmorton · 21/12/2021 19:11

Why should anyone have to work in the public sector? Nurses (and all healthcare workers) provide free workforce whilst they're training. We can't ransom people because of the way our education is funded. Utterly ridiculous.

What publicly funded education have you had OP?

Why is it deceitful? Do you have to solemnly swear to be treated like a dickhead by the government to get a place on a nursing degree?

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Wishingitwassummer · 21/12/2021 19:14

@Spidey66 Yes this is partly true. If they were working privately and using their knowledge and skills learned from their degree I would have less issue with this.

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Cherryana · 21/12/2021 19:14

I know someone who started her aesthetic business is only 'qualified' through a four day course.

I would prefer a medically trained professional any day.

I have really mixed feelings about the whole thing really - its a way for women to actually make proper money but I do think a medical training and qualification should be a minimum regulation.

ichifanny · 21/12/2021 19:14

Sorry the fact people think they own us because they paid a few grand for my training in which I worked for free for 4 years gets on my tits a bit .

TheFairyCaravan · 21/12/2021 19:15

I can’t get worked up about it. Student nurses already work 2300 hours on the wards for free. They’re in lectures more than other students and have shorter holidays. Maybe if they were treated better once they’d qualified they’d not be leaving in droves.

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Wishingitwassummer · 21/12/2021 19:15

I find it deceitful, as a university application will look for why you want to be a nurse. Do you honestly think that if a prospective student nurse was to write how they want to work in aesthetics, that they would get a place on the course?

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bruffin · 21/12/2021 19:16

I think working for a year or two for the NHS should be mandatory.
In Wales it is, you have to work 2 years or pay the bursary back.
My dd chose not to take bursary as she couldn't afford to live on the maintenance grant and if she left the course she had to pay back the course fees straight away and not through student finance.

MorganKitten · 21/12/2021 19:17

@CounsellorTroi

Seems a bit of a waste to train nurses who only want to work in an area which isn’t really healthcare at all.
It can fall under health care.
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Wishingitwassummer · 21/12/2021 19:18

@ichifanny Sorry, I hope I’ve not offended you but you have made it quite personal. You have obviously given so much and especially over the last couple of years. I commend you for that.
I don’t think that I own you at all.

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ichifanny · 21/12/2021 19:19

Probably not but that just feeds into the whole narrative that people think we are public property and in it for ‘a vocation’ and are angels that don’t need paid . It suits people to feel that way about us and then they can pay us poorly .

inheritancetrack · 21/12/2021 19:19

Feel the same about doctors and nurses who qualify then emigrate.

MichelleScarn · 21/12/2021 19:19

[quote Wishingitwassummer]@Spidey66 Yes this is partly true. If they were working privately and using their knowledge and skills learned from their degree I would have less issue with this.[/quote]
Why does this matter to you?!

bellalou1234 · 21/12/2021 19:19

I'm a nurse and annoyed by this. The training in gruelling and care and compassion is needed, not someone who is thinking of their end goal of doing botox and fillers. The amount of newly qualified nurses I know who pop up in Instagram advertising is unreal. I know everyone is entitled, but it doesn't sit right somehow

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