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aliferste · 26-06-2004, 20:58

My partner is a nurse and showed her this thread....she laughed and said she wished!!

A newly qualified nurse (after 3 years training at uni and then an extra year for a degree) starts off at 17k a year, this goes up to 24k after a number of years. There are no exeptions.... the whole of the NHS works off a grading system so a newly qualified starts off at the first and then works up.

Agency nurses do get paid a lot more cash, generally if you are a highly specialised nurse like someone working in a high dependancy ward and you are asked to travel to do a shift then you will get the big bucks, they do not come up a lot though!

The whole thing about the police officers is that they are trained for 6 months and then get 20 odd grand while nurses only start off at 17k (after 3 years intensive training)

26-06-2004, 20:58	#4
aliferste cf.mega poster Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Glasgow Age: 52 Posts: 1,831	Re: Nurses and the Health Service My partner is a nurse and showed her this thread....she laughed and said she wished!! A newly qualified nurse (after 3 years training at uni and then an extra year for a degree) starts off at 17k a year, this goes up to 24k after a number of years. There are no exeptions.... the whole of the NHS works off a grading system so a newly qualified starts off at the first and then works up. Agency nurses do get paid a lot more cash, generally if you are a highly specialised nurse like someone working in a high dependancy ward and you are asked to travel to do a shift then you will get the big bucks, they do not come up a lot though! The whole thing about the police officers is that they are trained for 6 months and then get 20 odd grand while nurses only start off at 17k (after 3 years intensive training)