Back to a wee clinical role next week maybe?


Yet more more progress today. Following my trip to the Western General Hospital I now have a new NHS Lothian ID card. I am now badged as a Covid-19 Staff Nurse. As usual the actual photo is a bit crap. The role however sounds ominously specific.

Still hoping I can get away with the NHS Scotland online mandatory modules but I’ll probably work my way through the NHS Lothian ones as well over the weekend. May well also need to have a good look at a few of the more clinically focused modules as it is increasingly likely that I will be heading in that direction. Having spoken with a former colleague I believe they are under significant pressure to second staff to other more acute clinical areas.

I also spoke with someone from the NHS recruitment process who asked whether, given my background and experience, I would consider working in either a community hospital or as part of a district nursing home care team. I’d be interested and happy with either but may be of more use in a community setting. In either area I’d need considerable support to get started as my hands-on clinical skills date back to the 1980s. Time for a rapid refresher perhaps.

The plan for now is to chat further by phone on Monday and hopefully sort out a location and date to get started in one or other of the above areas. Unless a new idea emerges. Meanwhile at the moment it looks like I’ll be back in uniform and into some basic nurse clinical practice. Not something I was planning on prior to February of this year. Interesting times.

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