retaining nursing registration

[kiwigirl42]

I am an RGN but have been off work for a year as not well enough to work (migraines/ fibro). I won't have done 450 hrs by December in order to renew my registration.

Does anyone know anything I could do to retain my registration, like telephone something from home or .... I just don't know.

Really don't want to lose my registration.

Do you know it's 450 hours over 3 years?

There are possiblities to work from home. I worked in a private call centre for 2-3 years. My job was absence reporting (people calling in sick) but other opportunities might be occupational health or (an interview I went to) for companies promoting diet pills or other medication ensuring compliance.

You'd probably have to attend training at an office for several weeks and return for appraisals etc. Like all call centre work there will be goals and scoring that's a blooming nuisance.

I'll pm you with links to the one or two I know of to give you an idea of what to look for.

BTW I let my registration lapse as I didn't have 450 hours last September. I became very anxious about it in the few months before. Now it's gone I feel like a huge weight has been lifted there's life on the other side!
I know that return to nursing places have been culled at the moment but I'm sure in 5-10 years there will be opportunities to return again.

thanks so much to you both. I did know it was over 3 yrs but I was only doing 5 hrs per week before I had to give up totally. Sounds stupid amount of hours but I am a chemo nurse and it was just to keep my hand in with the hope of getting better. But even that was too much for me in the end.

I think, realistically, that I will have to let it lapse but I am going through the anxiety you experienced!
I don't ever want to return to work on a ward again anyhow. too old for that now.

How many hours do you have to work? If it wasn't too many any possibility of a few bank shifts? Obviously depending on how debilitating your illnesses are, it sounds awful

Are you still employed by a trust were occ health could assist?

I also worked for a contact centre the one who should not be named it was a good environment to be honest, but not a long term or full time prospect.

I think I'm clutching at straws really. Shame you can't get credit for studying or something