Has anyone had a career change after nursing and if so what?

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I'm stuck in a rut work full time in a senior post not in my area of choice and really want to get out of the NHS full stop. I do have a degree and lots of management and clinical courses but it's all I've ever done and don't know what else to do now. Any ideas?

I am a Registered Nurse. Started off in hospital worked my way up to Matron. Left the nhs and became a Regional Manager for care org. Then after having second child I started teaching in FE. Studied for an MA then got a Nurse Lecturer job in Uni. It’s not as difficult as you think to get into lecturing. Just set your course and go for it!

Hi I left after just over 20 yrs, fed up of not being able to do my properly due to lack of staff. Fed up of the weekend shifts and never seeing my school age young children.

I sort of fell into work at an FE college and it has been quite a pleasant change to work in education. Although I am not teaching my job in admin does involved some helping of the students and teaching is something I would like to look into. I have also done the first aid at work course. On the positive side nursing is very good experience for other jobs, not just medical, there is the fact that you have dealt with all types of people, worked under high pressure and tons more transferrable skills that would take you to another job.

Sorry you are feeling fed up with it and good luck in what you decide.

Hi there have you thought about the DWP jobs for the pip or functional assessor roles? You are still using your nursing knowledge with patients but in an office environment. You basically are assessing them for benefit claims and salary after they train you is like £32,000 per year or more. Search for it on indeed jobs x

Hello I am now in the NHS part time but have joined a company where I have my own business working from home and hope to make the transition to leave the NHS once and for all. If anyone wants to become a partner in this business with uncapped earning potential please do get in touch. There are unlimited earning potential, travel and company car, training and support provided.

Is it health care related Shumi2?

sounds interesting x

Hi, I’m a newly qualified nurse. I’ve taken my first staff nurse post in a busy receiving unit . I thought I was going well. But is the worst thing ever.
I cry on way and home from work, feel I shouldn’t be there and questioning my love for the job now. It’s too busy with targets pressures and being understaffed. Cannot possible provide person centred safe and effective care in this environment and accidents happen which isn’t good
I think I really want to move on. But I really don’t know where to go out of nursing. I’ve been in the care sector for 15 years now and feel I’ve waisted all that training now.

Anyone know of options for a newly qualified nurse wanting to leave the profession and change their career completely.
Have a part time job as a barmaid which I love but that’s not a long term option 😫. Xx

Hi there what is the business? i may be interested too x

I just finally left my Nursing career after 30 years almost, just couldn't cope with 12 hour nightshifts on an incredibly challenging unit anymore. I've been left 3 weeks now and feel so much better already.

What do you do now? retired? x

I'm glad I stumbled upon this post. I've been nursing for 7 years and am a ward sister and frankly I hate every minute of it. I've contemplated applying for private hospitals or just doing agency but the NHS is all I know and I'm scared of just going from one shit storm to another. I genuinely find myself jealous of the cleaners as I think their job must be so much nicer than my god awful role!

Does anybody have any experience of private hospital working or working for pharmaceutical companies?

Hi there yes i work for a private eye hospital and i have some experience at spire hospitals which i found nicer than NHS. They still have their issues but slightly less pressure in some things id say. I do have a friend who now works for an ambulance service doing NHS 111 and loves it!! full training and great support band 6 role i think it is.

Angeleyes - I work as a benefits advisor for a leading charity, so assisting people to complete disability forms, advocating for them with the DWP, applying for Blue Badges, doing ward visits for patients that are in patients, making benefit claims for terminally ill patients etc. I still have to deal with distressed people which can be difficult, and I sometimes can't get clients out of my head when they are in particularly distressing situations but no where near as difficult as the stress of Nursing.

Do that the pip nursing assessor role then that’s a new thing?

Hello Missjones15

How are things now?
I’m feeling the same after 24 years!
Any advice greatly appreciated x

Help please.

I am currently working as a band 6 Specialist Nurse, like my job but politics getting me down and experiencing some bullying at work. Can I request a job transfer? TBH I am considering leaving the NHS altogether but wonder what else I can do for a similar pay?

Help! I feel like I am at a crossroads
Hi Ladies,
I have been a qualified nurse since 2007, in january 2014 I went on mat leave from a redeployment band 6 post, in my previous post my entire department was taken into a room and advised we were more than likely being made redundant. Anyway this all added to the stress of my pregnancy turning me from a previously confident and passionate band 6 into an unconfident, demotivated mess! I also moved house in the midst of all this as well. I wound up with extra scans as my baby was small for dates the entire way through and was quizzed post delivery about my smoking history (non existent) as my placenta was tiny and in a state (the midwife was very supportive and tried to reassure me, but the questions needed to be posed). If i'm honest I don't think I have recovered and since my return from mat leave in December 2015 I have changed jobs four times! This is because the cost of childcare and my managers' refusal to give set shifts meant it was almost impossible from a financial perspective to go to work and maintain my reg let alone pay the bills.I have been in my current post since August 2016, I work set nights every week in a small community hospital and no longer pay for childcare, parking and have cut my petrol bill by 50% per month. I have even managed to fall pregnant although I sadly miscarried.
I just feel demoralized and incredibly bored, I feel like i have been forced out of acute nursing, which I loved and enjoyed and put on the scrapeheap because I dared to fall pregnant. I dared to stand in a room with my various managers and say 'no, I have to put my child first' 'no, my mother can't provide the childcare' 'my husband is self employed and cannot just take the day off' I was constantly swapping shifts and begging for help until I landed this job. After an old manager got in touch and said she would happily give me set hours.
But I really want to leave Nursing, I don't enjoy it anymore and I wondered what roles our skills can transfer to. I'm not looking into health visiting/ practice nursing or school nursing, as I have genuinely had enough and would like to move on. Ideas??

Hi, I would like an advice. I'm a theatre nurse for 8 years in nhs. The last year i've been working as an agency nurse because my physical and mental health was getting worst due to the pressure the nurses have, I'm sure you all know well! Now I've reach a time where i'm feeling that i need to change, but not sure where to!! One thing I know for sure that i don't want to do nights and weekends! I want a family and working as an agency is not the best as i'll not have the benefits maternity leave as the nhs has. i really feel lost because I do like theatres and scrubbing. I like the practical bit of it, but i'm a little bit tired already. I need a change, but if you ask me what else do you like I'll not be able to tell you exactly! I don't even know where to start looking, I've been scrolling nhs jobs but didn't find anything that catch my eye! what are the advices that you can give me? Thank you

I'm in the same boat, been in ophthalmology nursing for 22 years, never thought I'd leave it but I'm scunnered. To many knocks, pressure to meet targets and tick boxes.

Hi guys, I just like to share my experience on this topic. I was a nurse for 7 years, different departments. I used to love my job but also I really struggled with some aspects of it at the times, well mentionned in above comments from many of you.
Then when I experienced a relationship break down as well, I could have not picked myself up for a long tíme. I was on and off work for almost an year. I could not cope with any kind of stress or pressure anymore. Not talking about anxiety, panic, insomia...
Prior to this I have experienced proper signs depression for over 2 years. I cried frequentely for no apparent reason, enormous tiredness, etc. My gp was saying that im stressed and depressed. I was saying that it must be a hormonal imbalance or some kind of vitamín deficiet. Well that as well but I did not want to admit that im not copping. For me it was everything together, not just nursing.

But anyway, I knew I need a change and that I am not able or want to go back to nursing, maybe just for a some time.
At first I tried to compromise and asked if I can do admin or something different with no direct contact with patients as I felt very fragile because I really wanted to work. It was not possible at my work place. I looked into different kind of nursing like research, etc. But then after reasearching the options, I 've decided I leave it for now completely.
I was lucky that I had some money saved so I was not that desperate. I have looked into many career possibilities. But my priority this time was a least stresful and pleasant enviroment, and to find something enjoyable again. I was lucky that i have found a job in a flower shop and and I trained as a florist. Its a little money, longer hours but I do enjoy it. It has also helped me a lot mentally. There are some idiots I have to deal with sometimes but mostly its nice and nice people.Its creative and completely different. Also lot of potentional for learning and developing in different way. I do feel tired and have enough sometimes when its long crazy day, but still its very different . I do have economice more now but its not that big deal. Just not spending that much on things I don't need. l do miss nursing and I may go back to it part time when I feel its right time. It was very hard decission and I cried and cried but it was the best for me at the time.

Hi Shumi are you still working for yourself please get in touch l’m interested in finding out what you do, thanks.

Hi Shumi2 are you still working for yourself, l’m interested in finding out what your business is about please. Thanks.

Hi
Just came across this thread when I googled nurse that need a new job! Lol
So..... I haven’t been nursing very long this is my 8th year.
I am currently signed off with anxiety/depression stress since November time.
I am a single parent to a almost 6 year old, have a lot of problems with my home life with very little support. Work was a place for me to escape and I love my job, most of my colleagues and the patients.
BUT it’s changed soooo much that I felt continuously stressed, upset stomach , irritable mood and cried whenever I could lol!
The expectation of nurses is ridiculous and I said to my friend the thought of going back feels be with dread. (I’m due back in 1-2weeks. )

I didn’t ever think I would feel like this nor did I think the job would get to me as much as it has but the pressure I felt was immense.
Since I’ve been off I feel relaxed, I have no upset stomach and my mental health has improved too.

I am desperate to change job and I keep thinking what can i do. I don’t think changing within the nhs will help as it seems the same everywhere.

It’s sad to see so many disheartened nurses who are worn out or suffering mentally.

I think the whole public sector is pretty bad to work in now.
Nursing friends talk about their stress, people I know in teaching are desperate to get out, social care sector in meltdown.
Is it possible to even get a lower stress job anymore?

Hello I've found this post this morning while coming back from a night shift,tired,stressed, confused with my body aching everywhere.
I work in theatres and lately due to the long hours,the lack of staff, the physical and mental demand I've been having lots of confusion in my head.
This thread helped me to not feel alone!
I'm not sure I am going to do this job for all my life, I've been working as a nurse for 4 years and I am already feeling down,hope this is only a moment.