Quote from a Newly Qualified Nurse

Found this quote on the Nursing article linked on the post below.

I am a newly qualified nurse working as an auxiliary on the bank when I am lucky enough to get shifts, there has been so much red tape to stop newly qualified nurses from getting a job in the NHS. It is very disheartening to go through all the studying and work to have nothing in the end. I am now looking to go in a new career direction as I need paid employment and that is not something I can find as a nurse sadly. When will they realise they need frontline staff and this is not something they can cut?


I keep hearing this over and over again from new Nurses.  Over and over again.

How can people blame  university (new) training for Nurses for the hellish conditions on the wards when our new RNs cannot even find jobs?  The vast majority of Registered Nurses practicing in the NHS trained under the old system and they are on their knees due to the lack of RNs.   We need RNs and we need new blood to replace an aging workforce.  What we don't need are more untrained unskilled minimum wage earning ward assistants. But that seems to be all that we are getting.