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Is doing a job such as shop assistants, the same as being a qualified engineer?

Do you have your mind set on an end goal as an office worker? 

For people who work in the care industry working as nurses and carers, where do you want to be in 5 years time?

  Let us learn to care for ourselves as well as others.

So, you have decided to train to become full time in your chosen profession, aiming to excel and to be the best. The idea has been on your mind for some time. It's also possible that you're already working in type of employment field, that you want to advance in and maybe choose to be your life time career. Your training has shown you that you can be dynamic and energetic in your pursuit of happiness .However, you might be wondering how the desire to pursue this path took root in your mind. If you were to reflect on it,  could you pinpoint the exact moment or reason for this motivation as it maybe unclear. In today's world, nursing in particular is certainly not a career for the faint-hearted.

The inspiration for a new career may have struck while watching a documentary about the National Health Service (NHS), or watching a handy man DIY type program inspiring you to want to be a plumber. Maybe, during a hospital visit to a relative, or as a sudden revelation came to you while visiting a museum or a stately home that you want to be an architect when contemplating your next steps in life. You relocated from your homeland as a qualified person, choosing to pursue your vocation by dedicating your skills and expertise to your new employer. 

As your children grow older and reach an age where a second income becomes beneficial for your family due to the rising cost of living, you may have found yourself contemplating various career paths. During the final stages of your education, you swiftly realized the need to make a choice: become the manager at your local Asda, pursue a nursing diploma or degree, or obtain a teaching degree. In my case, nursing was the most attractive option, despite the many similarities between the professions.

Experiencing your nurse training at university and the knowledge gained via clinical placements you have decided nursing is for you. 

So, you have qualified and then straight into the first year of your nursing career you quickly realize that it has taken over your life.  

However, if you are ambitious there is a glass ceiling which develops its own array of tangible, visible and audible traits which maintains as an unequal opportunity for advancements. 

Becoming aware of this aspect of nursing can often cause a lot of internal stress, a crisis of confidence and a lowering of your self-esteem.  Happiness through self-care is a vital tool to have in your survival kit for nursing.  Therefore, working in the healthcare industry can leave one feeling unfulfilled career-wise. 

There is often a limited amount of support for the development of a quality work-life balance especially because of the intensity of night and day shift patterns.  Nursing has more than its fair share of frustrations and let downs. There are, however, things that you can do to learn to change how you feel about ensuring longevity and productivity prevails in of your career, in the hopes of staving off disillusionment and burnout. 

The physical status of your body as you age and the psychological management of the mental status of your mind is what allows you to control your life 24/7.  Why not learn how to overcome anxiety?  Stress and anxiety are often the precursors to many illnesses associated with many health condition that plague the Western working world.

How would you like to develop bullet proof motivation and learn to think seriously about taking better control of your life and career?  Also, learn techniques that can help you take care of your own positivity and your physical well-being which may help you to tolerate your working environment which can be deemed as quite toxic in today's nursing world. 

In days gone by a career in nursing was said to be a vocation.  A calling, a bit like been a nun.  But what is a vocation and why is nursing no longer seen in this manner?

There are many professional nursing organizations and online communities and educational institutions that cater for black nurses such as The Black Nurses Association UK'(BNAU).  A Website that can be accessed via the internet. Websites such as BNAU tend to give an air of diversity and inclusion which are in direct aliment with nursing commitments, giving Up-to-date training opportunities, education on procedures and information about new research and new medications. 

Nursing is heavily influenced by people who are not nurses like the laypeople, the public, government politicians, the mainstream media, government department policy makers and lawyers' legal standings and stake holders.  All this information is available for you to Peruse on the world wide web.  But all uses nurses and nursing as a political weapon or a football to kick around, as if nursing is not stressful enough.

It is often deemed straight forward giving you knowledge about how they expect you to keep yourself revalidated, up to date with any government policies and procedures that will affect your pay grade, education, accountabilities, and ability to do your job.  All that information is vital of course but may add to your anxiety about certain aspects of your nursing career that you have no control over.

If you have gotten this far, please continue to look around our website which is dedicated to all you hard working nurses and caregivers.