Career Progression for Nurses : 6 Tips to Support Your Nursing Career

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TLDRIn this talk, the speaker shares six key tips for career progression in nursing, drawing from personal experiences. The first tip emphasizes that failure does not define one's future, as the speaker overcame bullying and academic setbacks. The importance of mentorship and support is highlighted, along with the need to understand available career pathways and opportunities. Aligning professional experiences with academic development is crucial, as is rigorous preparation for interviews. The speaker encourages patience and self-care, reminding nurses that career development is a journey that takes time.

Takeaways

  • 💪 Failure does not define your future career.
  • 🤝 Seek mentorship and support throughout your journey.
  • 📚 Understand the various career pathways available in nursing.
  • 🔍 Align your professional experiences with academic development.
  • 📝 Prepare rigorously for interviews as competition increases.
  • ⏳ Be patient; career progression takes time and effort.

Garis waktu

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker shares personal experiences from their nursing career, emphasizing that failure does not define one's future. They recount being bullied by a mentor and nearly leaving nursing, but found support in a new mentor, highlighting the importance of mentorship in nursing education.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The speaker discusses the importance of understanding career pathways and opportunities in nursing, encouraging nurses to research roles, shadow experienced staff, and network to find the right fit for their skills and interests.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    The speaker emphasizes the need for aligning professional experiences with academic development, advising nurses to seek mentorship and support to navigate their career paths effectively, and to be proactive in their professional growth.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    The speaker outlines the importance of planning ahead for career development, particularly in relation to applying for courses and seeking funding, and stresses the need to understand the structures and support available within healthcare organizations.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:27:37

    The speaker concludes with advice on preparing for interviews and being patient in career progression, reminding nurses that finding the right role takes time and that personal well-being should always come first.

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Video Tanya Jawab

  • What should I do if I fail an assignment in nursing?

    Access support before making a decision to leave; many have succeeded after setbacks.

  • How can I find mentorship in nursing?

    Look for trusted role models locally or nationally who can provide constructive advice.

  • What are the key career pathways in nursing?

    Explore various roles such as clinical educator, advanced nurse practitioner, and research positions.

  • How important is academic development in nursing?

    Aligning professional experiences with academic courses is crucial for career advancement.

  • What should I consider when preparing for interviews?

    Rigorous preparation is essential as competition increases for higher roles.

  • How can I access funding for nursing courses?

    Know your educational team and how to request financial support for your development.

  • Is it normal to feel uncertain about my nursing career path?

    Yes, many experience uncertainty; it's a natural part of career development.

  • What is the importance of networking in nursing?

    Networking can provide insights into different roles and opportunities available.

  • How can I align my professional development with my career goals?

    Be proactive in seeking roles that match your interests and qualifications.

  • What should I prioritize in my nursing career?

    Your mental and physical well-being should come before work.

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Gulir Otomatis:
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    [Music]
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    hi everybody welcome to my talk today
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    six tips to support your career
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    progression in nursing and i hope you
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    find them helpful
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    first thing to say is failure will not
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    define your future career and i'm a
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    prime example of that
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    the picture of me there in the 1980s
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    with my hat on i'm a lot grayer now
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    we had a vocational training linked to
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    schools of nursing and i was bullied by
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    my first mentor
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    and it was devastating and i very nearly
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    left nursing
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    and i remember her shouting at me on the
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    ward areas and at the time
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    it was very hierarchical that nursing
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    was not a degree profession then and we
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    were very much a pair of hands and i was
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    a very timid quiet 18 year old
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    and
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    at the end i went and spoke to people i
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    gained
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    there's much less support available then
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    than there is nowadays
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    but i stayed i went to my second
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    placement and the mentor could not have
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    been nicer
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    and i'll always remember her
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    and
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    it just shows really how important it is
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    for the support and supervision of
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    students and how it can influence you to
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    stay or to leave or roll for example or
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    as a student on a course
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    and then at the end of my training i got
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    to the end and i failed my nursing
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    finals which was
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    devastating and i was the only person in
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    my cohort that failed and in the 1980s
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    there was
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    much less the demographic was very
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    different job-wise we didn't have all
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    these thousands of jobs that we have
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    nowadays for newly registered nurses i
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    had to move from coventry i did my nurse
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    training in the place where i grew up
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    and
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    i was really scared about moving
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    secured a role
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    but the area i went into i hadn't got a
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    clue whether i'd enjoy neurosciences was
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    my first role but an again amazing
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    supportive charge nurse again i won't
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    ever forget him
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    was gave me a passion for that area
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    and would it gave me so many tips in
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    relation to
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    how i should treat somebody that's a new
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    starter so all the mentoring and
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    supervision i've had over the years from
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    really good supervisors i've taken to
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    learn from them to try and do the same
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    to support people
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    and
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    from then it took me a long time to
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    decide whether i wanted to go up a
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    clinical management pathway and i went
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    into education in the end and it was um
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    only again through good supervision and
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    through mentorship when i was registered
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    that i came to decide that i wanted to
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    become an educator and i've had amazing
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    mentors throughout my career
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    but for those of you that might have
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    failed an assignment or are not quite
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    sure
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    whether nursing is for you
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    try and access support before you make
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    that decision to leave if i had i would
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    never have had the career that i've had
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    and
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    i absolutely love
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    nursing and our profession and i
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    couldn't have wished for a better career
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    so hopefully that'll give hope to some
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    people out there if you are struggling
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    six key tips that will help your career
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    development from my own career 33 years
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    as a registered nurse and
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    28 as a nurse tutor
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    what's really helpful is to know what
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    career pathways and opportunities are
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    available to you and there are many more
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    opportunities available nowadays to when
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    i started my career
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    know how to access support supervision
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    and career advice which i'll give you
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    some tips for
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    aligning your professional experience
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    and development to academic development
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    and courses
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    always thinking a year ahead when you're
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    looking at aligning your academic
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    development and applying for courses
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    rigorously preparing for interviews
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    as you progress
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    up career ladder or even if you're
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    looking at sidewood's moves
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    for certain roles there'll be high
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    competition
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    and being patient and not putting
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    pressure on yourself is really important
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    so the first area know what career
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    pathways and opportunities are available
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    we have never been in
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    a time in nursing where we have so many
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    research opportunities internship
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    opportunities different types of roles
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    different settings
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    than we have nowadays
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    to do your research go and have a look
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    on employer websites intranet sites nhs
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    jobs there's other national websites to
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    look for jobs
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    and
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    look out for scholarships research
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    internships
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    network with experienced staff locally
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    and nationally
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    shadow others as well to see what
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    opportunities are out there and
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    interestingly
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    you may think a role would suit your
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    skill set
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    and it it's interesting when people come
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    to me and say i want to become a charge
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    nurse or a team leader for example or i
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    want to become a clinical educator or an
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    advanced nurse practitioner or a
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    researcher
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    the first thing i will say is go and
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    talk to people in those roles go and
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    book informal visits do some shadowing
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    and interestingly
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    there'll be a percentage that will come
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    back and say actually i did not realize
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    that is what that role entails
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    and also across employers there will be
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    different slightly different job
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    descriptions and personal specifications
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    so a role a clinical um a nurse educator
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    role
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    practice development nurse in one trust
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    might be slightly different in another
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    we don't have standardization nationally
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    currently
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    so it's important to go and book
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    informal visits and go and do that
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    shadowing
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    another key thing to think about looking
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    at opportunities you can't apply for a
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    role
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    or an opportunity if you do not meet the
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    essential in a job description or
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    personal specification
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    so you've got these essential criteria
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    versus desirable so the essential might
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    be certain qualifications that you have
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    to have
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    desirable it you can acquire those
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    qualifications in the role
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    or experiences in the role
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    so do you need a masters or a post
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    registration specialist course to apply
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    for this opportunity
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    so that's important to look at that in
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    advance
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    looking at career pathways every person
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    is different career pathways change
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    according to personal circumstance and
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    no pathway suits everybody when i
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    started out you could see i had a really
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    difficult start didn't quite know what i
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    wanted to do but with good support i
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    developed a passion for an area
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    and but i've had times in my career
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    where i
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    met
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    a well for example i met a lecturer
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    practitioner when we moved to a degree
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    profession
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    and i thought well i really want to
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    become a lecturer practitioner and these
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    were roles set up that were a bridge
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    between the theoretical aspects of
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    nursing you'd go and teach for half of
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    your role in a university and then your
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    other half you would be in practice and
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    i eventually became a lecturer
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    practitioner in my specialist area of
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    neurosciences
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    which was my ideal role
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    and but to become that lecturer
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    practitioner i was
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    at the time i was a
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    sister nursing sister at the time
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    i spoke to a lecturer practitioner and i
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    knew that i had to gain certain
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    qualifications and do a master's to
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    become a lecturer practitioner
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    so i had to think about how am i going
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    to do those courses and start aligning
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    my career and it was quite slowly
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    progressing but i got there and i was a
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    bit of a plodder i would say with my
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    education but i did it and i started to
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    gain a real um
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    interest in critiquing articles and
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    writing and again that developed later
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    in my career
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    but when i was in the middle of my
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    master's i had to go through a
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    bereavement and i had to leave for a
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    year to have time out for a year so it's
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    just being aware that your personal
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    circumstances will affect where you're
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    going with your career and there'll be
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    times where you might know exactly where
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    you're going and other times where you
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    haven't got a clue and that's fine
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    that's natural that's that happens
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    others will be very ambitious and i
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    became very ambitious when i knew i had
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    that role that i was aspiring to and i
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    tried to do everything i could possibly
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    to align my professional experience and
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    academic courses once i knew that was
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    where i was going
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    and remember if you fail a module or a
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    course you're not offered a role you can
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    apply again or you can resit and look at
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    alternatives learn from your interviews
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    and you have not failed in your career
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    looking at example career pathways you
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    can go on nhs careers you can go on our
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    royal college of nursing websites and
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    you'll see different career pathways
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    there's some fantastic videos out there
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    of people in all different types of
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    roles under these sort of headings and
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    these pathways
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    um clinical your standard clinical
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    leadership pathway so i started with
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    that really as a staff nurse team leader
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    um
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    nursing sister i didn't want to become a
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    matron and i moved over to an
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    educational pathway
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    and again i started bedside teaching and
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    then aspired to the lecturer
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    practitioner role
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    and or i could have gone full-time into
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    university education there are so many
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    different remits linked to education now
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    and different roles and different
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    employers offer different types of
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    educational roles you've got your
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    specialist nurse role or advanced nurse
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    practitioner roles and then research
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    there's so many research internships
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    scholarships um national institute for
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    health research you can go on the
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    websites and look at what's available
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    the royal college of nursing has
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    fantastic links and and sort of
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    summarizes all of those opportunities
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    nationally as well that you can apply
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    for
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    and there are research roles that may be
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    split into two so you might work half as
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    a researcher and a half as a specialist
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    nurse or an advanced nurse practitioner
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    and or again looking across
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    employer websites you'll see these
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    opportunities um available
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    and you've got the different settings
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    you can work in the community in a gp
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    practice in a prison you can work for
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    charities you can work for private
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    institutions you've got all these
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    different types of roles we don't have
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    um
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    specific standard
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    role definitions across these career
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    pathways we've got
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    hundreds of types of advanced nurse
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    practitioners and specialist nurse roles
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    and educator roles across the uk
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    and we've got different specialisms so
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    you've got so much more choice nowadays
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    so go out there and see what's out there
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    second tip know how to access support
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    supervision and career advice so you
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    need to find somebody that you trust
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    who's a good role model who offers sound
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    positive and constructive career advice
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    and support and that might be somebody
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    locally or externally now when i started
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    out in my career i wrote my first
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    publication i wrote a letter to the
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    nursing times i think it was late 1980s
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    or early 1990s now
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    and i was given the wrong advice to be
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    to go into education so i wrote this
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    stroppy little letter to the nursing
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    times saying that there should be career
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    advisors in nursing
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    um so that we are advised correctly this
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    was in the late 1980s
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    and it was published and i then got
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    contacted by
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    somebody in the school of nursing i
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    think at the time who agreed with me
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    and she started to act as a career
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    advisor for me which was amazing really
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    interesting now because i look at career
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    advising as part of my role so it shows
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    how full circle we've gone
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    and but during my career i had
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    when i first started i was getting
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    advice from
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    the charge nurse in my first role
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    because i wanted to become a team leader
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    in neurosciences but then it became
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    evident that if i was going to go into
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    an educational role that i needed to
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    look at different people to advise me so
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    talking to lecturer practitioners people
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    the university leads that were running
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    education courses because i wanted sound
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    advice because you need to ensure the
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    advice you're given is correct because
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    you can go down the wrong pathway or
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    apply for the wrong course for example
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    so i've had different people during my
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    career locally externally
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    nationally even that you can network
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    with
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    and that's really important
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    i have
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    a video coming out on post registration
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    education again that summarizes some of
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    that information
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    third tip aligning your professional
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    experiences and development with your
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    academic development is one of the most
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    important things you can do to support
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    your career development
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    post registration education the
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    connections you make the role models you
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    observe the supervisors and networks of
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    support that you have in place are
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    essential to nurses professional
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    development
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    so do your groundwork be proactive when
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    you choose roles and career pathways and
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    most importantly be well informed and
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    choose wisely so for newly registered
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    nurses don't leave that first role to
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    chance you deserve
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    you deserve supervision you deserve
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    preceptorship
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    and if you don't get it
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    plan to move and set up your next role
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    and um it's really important that in the
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    future
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    you look at your academic development in
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    advance which i'll talk through because
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    it links nicely on to the next slide
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    so this is just an example template of
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    the sort of professional development
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    that aligns to
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    i've focused on education role here
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    going up a career ladder
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    and the academic alignment for those of
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    you that are aspiring to go up and
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    progress on a career ladder
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    i've linked it to the agenda for change
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    pay bans i know that some people
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    would rather i don't do that
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    or would rather we don't look at the
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    bands but realistically the bands are on
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    most jobs you will see a banding
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    structure that links to the agenda for
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    change and you'll see
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    um
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    bands aligned at an education bands that
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    align to a six and to a band seven for
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    educators and employers will have
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    slightly different personal
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    specifications but generally the job
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    descriptions align um because they've
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    got to align to agenda for change
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    so
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    professional development if you are
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    looking to become a practice development
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    nurse clinical nurse educator clinical
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    educator it could be called something
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    else at a band six from a band five
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    you'll see that looking in the middle
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    column
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    that usually they will be asking for
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    some experience a one year two year
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    experience in health care
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    supervising mentoring in practice and an
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    active interest demonstrated in
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    education so if you know that to become
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    a band six that is what they are
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    expecting
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    as a five you can start aligning your
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    professional experiences and you might
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    go and talk to an educator in your area
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    and say i'm really interested in
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    education can i link into your new
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    starter teaching program and do a
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    session on
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    an area of practice that you're
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    interested in
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    you could do it you could link to
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    education by linking to student nurses
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    and orientating student nurses when they
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    come to your area
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    you
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    could
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    write competencies or look at induction
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    packs for students or for newly
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    registered nurses
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    all of these things link to education
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    and link to in brackets education link
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    role so
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    there's nothing stopping you as a band 5
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    if you know you're starting to develop
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    that interest of starting to support
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    educators in the role if you don't have
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    any educators then start linking to your
  • 00:17:10
    line manager and say why don't we look
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    at
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    linking and supporting education in this
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    area
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    on the right hand side you'll see
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    looking at a band six a post
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    qualification certificate in education
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    so that's what i did i did a certificate
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    in education to see because i was quite
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    shy i would never have thought i'd have
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    been able to get up and do lectures
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    later in my life i did but i started
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    with the certificate in education and
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    you develop confidence you develop tips
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    to help you present as you experience
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    and you learn from your mistakes
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    and then if you look at a band 7 where
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    you're doing more of a leadership you
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    might be linking and supporting other
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    educators
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    covering a lot of areas rather than just
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    one clinical setting for example
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    you might have a little bit more
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    experience you might have previously
  • 00:18:02
    worked as a practice development nurse
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    you might be a team leader with
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    transferable skills
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    and you might do a postgraduate
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    certificate in education or a diploma in
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    education or a masters
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    it's not set in stone these academic
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    qualifications or the experiences but
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    you will find that jobs align on the
  • 00:18:24
    personal specification and it will give
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    you more chance at interview if you
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    start to align in some way your academic
  • 00:18:32
    courses and your professional
  • 00:18:34
    development so i hope that table
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    explains um in some way what i'm trying
  • 00:18:38
    to explain hopefully it does
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    academic credit it's important as well
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    to think about the academic credits
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    you're doing for courses number one as
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    registered nurses you should be
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    supporting support workers health and
  • 00:18:52
    social care support workers nursing
  • 00:18:54
    assistants clinical support workers
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    to do courses because you'll retain them
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    in their role and they may eventually go
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    on and do an apprenticeship or go and do
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    a pre-registration degree at university
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    and
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    it's helpful to know what credits align
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    so in england we've got the level three
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    um to four
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    to five apprenticeship for
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    say for example for support workers
  • 00:19:20
    foundation degree level five might link
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    to a nursing associate role
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    pre-registration degree
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    for nursing level six or all registered
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    nurses should be level six
  • 00:19:32
    and then masters would be level seven
  • 00:19:34
    and doctor at level eight and it's
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    important to have an awareness of
  • 00:19:38
    courses if you're a line manager and i
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    know lots of people have put that slide
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    up in their office for example when
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    they're trying to explain to support
  • 00:19:45
    workers the um different credit levels
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    and they will be slightly different
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    across universities sometimes and across
  • 00:19:53
    the four nations as well because
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    scotland has a different
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    quality certificate framework
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    but it's important to know when you're
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    applying for courses that
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    you
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    understand what level of course you're
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    applying for i do know people that have
  • 00:20:07
    applied for
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    a course that they thought was a
  • 00:20:10
    master's course and actually was a level
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    six level post registration course for
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    example and you might have um
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    i
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    know many nurses that tried to get
  • 00:20:20
    credits on courses then they might do
  • 00:20:22
    one post registration course at masters
  • 00:20:25
    and um say for example
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    um i don't know a teaching course
  • 00:20:31
    um level seven and then they're wanting
  • 00:20:34
    to go on and do a leadership in masters
  • 00:20:37
    and they want to try they think that
  • 00:20:39
    they can just join it onto a masters
  • 00:20:41
    with the university and you can't do
  • 00:20:43
    that you have to go and approach the
  • 00:20:44
    program lead and see if you can get
  • 00:20:46
    what's called pellet or
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    get a prior
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    um
  • 00:20:50
    learning accreditation where you can get
  • 00:20:53
    credited and if you can get credited
  • 00:20:55
    that's amazing some people do a course
  • 00:20:58
    that could have been credited and don't
  • 00:20:59
    ask the programme lead so that's why
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    it's important to understand what level
  • 00:21:04
    and credits you're acquiring as you go
  • 00:21:06
    along post registration
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    your learning and development choose a
  • 00:21:11
    collaborative supportive culture that
  • 00:21:13
    will enable you to thrive if you're
  • 00:21:15
    newly registered i've got lots of tips
  • 00:21:17
    of how to help you choose your first
  • 00:21:19
    registered nurse post if you're
  • 00:21:21
    interested
  • 00:21:22
    access support from local educators
  • 00:21:25
    managers experienced staff and clinical
  • 00:21:27
    buddies and finding out how education
  • 00:21:30
    systems work early on is really helpful
  • 00:21:33
    and ensuring that you get sign off on
  • 00:21:35
    your professional development reviews
  • 00:21:37
    and your annual reviews which will help
  • 00:21:40
    with you aligning your professional
  • 00:21:42
    development with your academic courses
  • 00:21:46
    so number four think a year ahead and
  • 00:21:50
    this really
  • 00:21:52
    is because nurse education
  • 00:21:54
    and
  • 00:21:55
    applying for courses
  • 00:21:57
    thinking about your next role is really
  • 00:22:00
    important you know nhs trusts community
  • 00:22:03
    hospital trusts universities
  • 00:22:06
    reflect business models in that their
  • 00:22:08
    financial years are um
  • 00:22:10
    and and spending
  • 00:22:12
    is organized a year in advance so when
  • 00:22:15
    you're looking to apply for courses and
  • 00:22:17
    that request funding
  • 00:22:19
    and when you're looking at aligning your
  • 00:22:21
    career you would need to think a year in
  • 00:22:25
    i've got some good videos coming out on
  • 00:22:28
    post registration nurse education and
  • 00:22:30
    applying for course funding
  • 00:22:32
    and another video on influencing change
  • 00:22:35
    and supporting others in your role
  • 00:22:38
    both of which are linking to this
  • 00:22:40
    aligning and planning a year ahead the
  • 00:22:43
    influencing change and supporting others
  • 00:22:45
    um links to what i mentioned earlier
  • 00:22:47
    about um thinking about the next role on
  • 00:22:51
    what your interests are so if you were
  • 00:22:53
    looking at education you would be
  • 00:22:55
    supporting students start to do that as
  • 00:22:58
    a an experienced five
  • 00:23:00
    influencing change if you were going to
  • 00:23:02
    become i don't know
  • 00:23:03
    go into a clinical academic career or
  • 00:23:05
    research that you might take on a
  • 00:23:07
    service improvement project and try and
  • 00:23:09
    look at leading
  • 00:23:11
    a project or collaborating and
  • 00:23:13
    supporting a project in your area
  • 00:23:18
    looking in advance to do that you need
  • 00:23:21
    to access support so knowing your
  • 00:23:23
    clinical educational team structures in
  • 00:23:25
    your area who's responsible for your
  • 00:23:28
    immediate long-term learning needs and
  • 00:23:30
    professional development and they can
  • 00:23:32
    advise you and help you align these
  • 00:23:34
    pathways
  • 00:23:36
    how are management and educational teams
  • 00:23:39
    structured where you work do you have
  • 00:23:41
    corporate education leads or you could
  • 00:23:43
    work in a very small
  • 00:23:45
    private um with a small private employer
  • 00:23:48
    that doesn't have all of these
  • 00:23:49
    structures that potentially large nhs
  • 00:23:52
    trusts would have but they can still be
  • 00:23:55
    key people that will help advise you and
  • 00:23:59
    enable you to access funding for for
  • 00:24:01
    your development
  • 00:24:02
    local clinical educators and new line
  • 00:24:05
    managers
  • 00:24:06
    you need to know how to book on courses
  • 00:24:08
    how do you request financial support and
  • 00:24:11
    study leave um paid study leave and
  • 00:24:13
    study time to attend academic courses
  • 00:24:15
    and that's all on my previous um the
  • 00:24:18
    video on post registration education
  • 00:24:20
    lots of tips on there
  • 00:24:23
    fifth tip rigorously prepare for
  • 00:24:26
    interviews as you move up a career
  • 00:24:28
    ladder or you may go for a role a
  • 00:24:31
    sideways move it might be your ideal
  • 00:24:33
    role the competition becomes higher for
  • 00:24:36
    roles
  • 00:24:37
    when you stop at your first newly
  • 00:24:39
    registered nurse roles currently
  • 00:24:42
    the situation is we have lots and lots
  • 00:24:44
    of vacancies
  • 00:24:46
    um for newly registered nurses in the uk
  • 00:24:49
    that may change and in five years time
  • 00:24:51
    it might be very different as i said
  • 00:24:53
    earlier in the 1980s there was limited
  • 00:24:55
    jobs i had three posts in england that i
  • 00:24:58
    could apply for when i failed my nursing
  • 00:25:00
    finals there was two in london and one
  • 00:25:03
    in cambridge completely different to
  • 00:25:05
    nowadays so it may change but currently
  • 00:25:09
    there is a lot of option for newly
  • 00:25:11
    registered nurses
  • 00:25:13
    as you move up a career ladder or go for
  • 00:25:15
    sidewood's moves
  • 00:25:17
    there won't be because there'll be more
  • 00:25:19
    people applying for less roles that
  • 00:25:21
    become available
  • 00:25:23
    so naturally
  • 00:25:24
    most areas do not have the same number
  • 00:25:26
    of deputy sisters or team leaders
  • 00:25:29
    and clinical nurse educators as newly
  • 00:25:32
    registered nurses
  • 00:25:34
    so never presume
  • 00:25:36
    that you are going to be offered a role
  • 00:25:38
    and prepare
  • 00:25:40
    to have the most chance of success
  • 00:25:42
    and i have a video coming out on
  • 00:25:45
    preparing for band six seven nurse
  • 00:25:48
    interviews and that that it would be
  • 00:25:50
    applicable for education clinical
  • 00:25:52
    um career pathway research there's just
  • 00:25:56
    key tips in there for going on to the
  • 00:25:57
    next sort of level of interview
  • 00:26:02
    final tip finally be patient and don't
  • 00:26:05
    put pressure on yourself
  • 00:26:07
    your career is not a race it takes time
  • 00:26:09
    to find a role specialism setting that
  • 00:26:12
    suits your needs and you may be
  • 00:26:15
    somebody where you did know exactly
  • 00:26:17
    where you wanted to go when you start
  • 00:26:19
    and that's fantastic and i know students
  • 00:26:21
    that from previous life experiences or
  • 00:26:24
    they cared for somebody that was ill
  • 00:26:26
    um had cancer that they knew that that
  • 00:26:29
    was that area that they wanted to go
  • 00:26:31
    into but many people won't know and it
  • 00:26:34
    takes time
  • 00:26:35
    you won't know unless you try you
  • 00:26:37
    develop transferable skills throughout
  • 00:26:39
    your career you learn from all of those
  • 00:26:42
    positive experiences and challenging
  • 00:26:44
    experiences as well i never realized
  • 00:26:47
    that
  • 00:26:49
    i would end up
  • 00:26:50
    mentoring and supervising students when
  • 00:26:52
    i was bullied by that mentor and was
  • 00:26:54
    about to leave nursing and i've sort of
  • 00:26:57
    flipped it on its head really and
  • 00:26:58
    realized this is good mentorship and
  • 00:27:01
    this is terrible mentorship um accessing
  • 00:27:04
    funding for courses may take time too
  • 00:27:07
    and ultimately your mental and physical
  • 00:27:10
    well-being comes before work
  • 00:27:15
    so i hope some of those tips might help
  • 00:27:17
    you
  • 00:27:18
    do put comments in the youtube comments
  • 00:27:20
    if you've got any questions or any
  • 00:27:22
    comments on the the tips and you can
  • 00:27:24
    contact me on my website or dm me on
  • 00:27:27
    twitter or instagram
  • 00:27:29
    good luck wherever you go with your
  • 00:27:31
    career whatever you do
  • 00:27:33
    take care
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