AIBU to still be considering nursing after moving to the civil service?

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After 15 years in the NHS and a recent pivot to the Civil Service, I find myself deeply missing patient contact and the nursing career I always aspired to. Now that my children are older, logistically things are much easier, and the desire to care for patients is stronger than ever. However, I’m 39 and have reservations about re-entering the NHS due to well-documented concerns about toxic workplace cultures. It would take me 4 years in total to complete the degree and the access course. I would love to hear advice from others who have navigated late-career changes or who are in healthcare and can give me some perspective.

Don't know if this helps but I am a civil service manager who managed a colleague who worked 2 days a week as a nurse and 3 days as a civil servant.

I trained when in my 30s and a single parent, kids were older and placements accommodating.
Money could be more but we have a very good standard of living and I have 2 good pensions, I come from a family of nurses and don't think any of us have experienced toxicity although I have experienced it is who you know not always what you know when applying for promotions
Woukd I choose nursing again, likely

Things are about as shit as they ever have been for someone entering nursing, tuition fees, loss of bursaries, no job security or progression once qualified and so on. My friends still in the profession say it has been hell but there are signs of hope.

I would give it a couple of years and see where things are at.