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originally posted by: andy06shake

It still takes 4 years, minimum, to train a nurse.

It takes just under three years to train a paramedic and they have to

have more knowledge and training than a nurse. Unlike nurses they are

first responder's, so it shouldn't take 4 years to train a nurse.

It costs a trainee paramedic aprox £1,000 on top of student fees for a

HGV licence and blue light training before they can qualify.

a reply to: oldcarpy

I thought this was our group therapy

seems talking to you lot is the only way I can actually deal with whatever irks me in our society


hmm if it wasnt for the internet I wonder how many of us would have went mental with no one to talk to or express ourselves with.

a reply to: andy06shake

I will ask my wee cousin jennifer, she trained as a nurse in wales then moved to near stonehenge, her husband is in the army
artillery regiment

She has worked as a pediatric nurse for nearly 3 years now

a reply to: eletheia

Both paramedics and nurses have different levels of training.

The significant difference in training relates to the fact that nursing takes place in the hospital.

Apparently there are training programs of shorter duration for both professions.

As to paramedic being required to foot the bill for there own HGV license, that's just shocking nevermind counterproductive in the extreme.

But even if it took 2 years to train a fully qualified nurse, that's not going to supply the additional 40,000 nurses we require.

The trouble i have with this Tory nursing scenario, well the Conservatives promised 5,000 more Doctors and GP back in 2015.

And more than 500 have left since then.

Why should they do any better with the Nursing profession?

a reply to: andy06shake

exactly there is no incentive for anyone who qualifies from University to find highly skilled work here in the UK

for obvious reasons

originally posted by: sapien82
a reply to: andy06shake

exactly there is no incentive for anyone who qualifies from University to find highly skilled work here in the UK

for obvious reasons

Interested in why you would believe that to be the case mate? If you qualify for highly skilled work, you will pull in higher wages in the vast majority of cases - and our tax rates aren't really that high (income tax at least).

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originally posted by: sapien82
a reply to: oldcarpy

I thought this was our group therapy

seems talking to you lot is the only way I can actually deal with whatever irks me in our society


hmm if it wasnt for the internet I wonder how many of us would have went mental with no one to talk to or express ourselves with.

Hey mate - thats what pubs are for.

Plenty of nutters on ATS mind.

a reply to: oldcarpy

Pubs and nutters can also be pretty synonymous these days dependent on the area and establishment in question.

Take any town center on a Friday or Saturday evening for instance.

Suppose you would need to be crazy to pay those prices all the same.

So when in Rome.

originally posted by: sapien82
exactly there is no incentive for anyone who qualifies from University to find highly skilled work here in the UK

You are so nagative. You need to get a out a bit. There is plently of opportunities and incentives for intelligent graduates with the right degrees to get good jobs. 95% of nursing graduates go on into nursing jobs, for example.

a reply to: paraphi

I was specifically speaking about the NHS , if the NHS is supposedly getting sold , would any young new nurses or doctors be into working for thh NHS only to have it collapse and be sold off around them and force them to look for new work ?

a reply to: paraphi

im not negative at all

I was out friday night watching fat white family , spit on #s
then stayed out until 4am drinking whisky and schnapps listening to rock n roll!

talking about how we were gonnae stick it to the man

hahahah

a reply to: eletheia

HGV licence and blue light training before they can qualify

Why would a paramedic/Ambulance driver need an HGV licence?. You would only require a C1 I already have that on my licence and i've only sat a normal driving test.

originally posted by: Soloprotocol

Why would a paramedic/Ambulance driver need an HGV licence?. You would only require a C1 I already have that on my licence and i've only sat a normal driving test.

I don't know....... I may have letters mixed up 'letters' (C1 HGV) or what ever

but although she was already a driver with an ordinary licence it cost around

£1,000 for intensive training, in large capacity vehicles and ambulances with

blue light on road experience. Whatever it has added to her licence is she has

to pay annually to renew it.

I found it hard to understand why it is needed as she is required to be hands on

with the patient and thats what she spent nearly three years studying to do!

a reply to: Soloprotocol

It depends when you passed your test. If you are old enough, C1 would be on your licence. If you are younger though, you would have to pass a test to get C1 certification.

Basically, along with cheap houses and pensions, it is something else that Eletheia's generation stole from the rest of us!

originally posted by: Flavian

Basically, along with cheap houses and pensions, it is something else that Eletheia's generation stole from the rest of us!

Sorry no guilt here ....... I personally know of no one of the generations that

have followed mine that have known the hardship I have known, the difference

though is I didn't spend my time moaning about it, I didn't really have the time

to do that.

And the generations that came after me have had help from me in many ways,

the latest way being that I paid the £1000 that she needed for that licence.

a reply to: eletheia

What about the £155 they want pensioners to pay for a TV license, nonpayment under penalty of jail?

Considering all some of the poor souls have left by way of company is their television, when they can afford the power that is.

That's a cracker and a half for some old people to have to foot the bill.

originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: eletheia

What about the £155 they want pensioners to pay for a TV license, nonpayment under penalty of jail?
Considering all some of the poor souls have left by way of company is their television, when they can afford the power that is.
That's a cracker and a half for some old people to have to foot the bill.

What about it? Like everyone else I will have to pay it.

£3 a week, so what should I give up .......

a reply to: eletheia

You should not give up anything, especially if you are an old pensioner where £155 amounts to about a month's worth of food.

That's whats called taking the pish, and then some.

a reply to: eletheia

Hahaha sounds like excuses to me, you greedy little oligarch!



I don't know, stealing all the goodies from your poor grandbairns......