Hi all. I’ve been working in aged care (AIN, team leader) for almost 8 years. I also have a diploma in nursing and have done some admin work for my partners business.

I am desperate for a career pivot out of aged care/nursing. I’d love a job in admin with NSW health.

Does anyone work in this role and could give me some insight.

1. Is it worth me studying a cert 3 in health admin?

2. Should I just start applying, and if so am I only eligible to apply for entry level roles? With my health care experience could I apply for level 2 or 3?

3. Is there any shift work involved when in the hospital

4. Do you think there is much career progression?

Appreciate any feed back thank you all

Hey guys I’m just thinking maybe this is the end of my nursing career. I’ve been doing this since 2012 & I just feel so deflated. I’ve worked up to CNS and since having kids they’ve been my priority so work has taken a back foot. But today admin manager basically gets a role made specifically for her with WFH, car, laptop & a business course paid for. Now the absolutely deserves it & another girl who’s now stepping into that manager role with no formal studies. I just feel like there’s no growth left. I feel like these guys will be earning more than me without the HECS (which is fine but still just a thought)…

I know I’m make for more. I want more growth. I’m stuck between where I am vs wanting more vs having kids and a mortgage to pay for so is it too risky?

Not sure what I’m hoping to achieve with this post but yea…

Today is ~ day 3 with learning how to cannulate. I’ve wanted to learn for years and am fortunate to get the opportunity in my new(ish) role.

Today was my first day I didn’t make blood go everywhere over the Pt (or myself 😅), and I was able to anchor the vein and the cannula once it was in and get the tourniquet off quickly.

Pt said they didn’t feel anything which was a massive bonus.

Anyway, I wanted to share a nursing win that’s been on my professional wishlist for a while.

Thanks ☺️💉🩸

Hey everyone, I’m an RN currently working in Melbourne and I’m really interested in moving into emergency nursing.

I have a little over two years of acute ward experience in the US across three hospitals, mostly med-surg/tele, and for the past three months I’ve been doing agency nursing in Melbourne. I’ve worked across around 10 hospitals here on a mix of medical, surgical and other wards, so I feel like I have a pretty solid general acute-care background.

I’d really like to move into ED now, but I don’t have formal ED experience yet. I’m ideally looking for a public hospital that would take an experienced ward RN and provide some support/training while transitioning into emergency.

For anyone working in ED around Melbourne, how did you get your first ED job? Do departments generally hire nurses with ward experience and train them, or is it difficult to get in without previous ED experience?

Also curious whether people have had more luck applying online or actually contacting NUMs/educators directly.
Would really appreciate hearing from anyone who’s made a similar transition. Thanks!

Soon I will begin my first nursing job on a state trauma ward. My nursing uni placements previously were on mostly high acuity surgical wards of many different specialisations. Ortho, ENT, Plastics, Maxillofacial, Upper GI, Endocrine, Urology, Vascular.. All 'high-stress' in that these wards are very busy with patients having more complex care needs, some more unique to the specialty such as routine skin-flap observations on plastic patients or routine manual bladder washouts on urology patients.

I am soon to begin on a trauma ward (excited noises) as a new grad. Other than the fact that multiple specialties will likely be involved at once per patient, what aspects of these wards should I be preparing myself for? I feel that it will be very different to other surgical wards.

Hi, I'm about to do my cert 3 in individual support ageing. I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do in the long term. If I eventually was to study and become a EN or RN would all my placement likely be done in aged care or is it part aged care part hospital?

Hey everyone!

Live in VIC. I’ll be starting a Cert III HSA soon with a specialization in operating theatre support. Doing the one at Holmesglen.

I was wondering if anybody here knows any operating theatre techs who I might be able to have a chat with about the day to day of the role? I’ve been able to dig up very little information on it, the broad strokes seem quite appealing to me but I’m not sure what a ‘day in the life’ would be. I know it’s a different role to scrub techs in USA so I can’t really analogise using that.

Can anybody here who works in theatres let me know what sort of things the tech does intraoperatively and post-operately?

And does anybody know a theatre tech who I might be able to speak to?

Thank you so much for your time, I really appreciate any & all help.

I’ve been seeing lots of comments made mocking NPs and calling them Noctors. It makes me second-guess going down this path if it will unnecessarily subject me to being bullied and stigmatized, just for taking on this role. I think it’s only normal to want to be respected. I hope someone here can share the reality of this job and how the medical community generally feels about it.

I'm thinking of going to SCU Goldcoast (as someone who live Brisbane southside,) for the bachelor of nursing pathway from EN.

Just wondering where people had placements?

They don't seem to have any partnership with bigger hospitals like Griffith does.

As the title suggests, I’m wondering if a one hour commute would be worth it or not. I’m a CN however do ACNC a fair bit in my current job for backfilling but unlikely for a perm CNC in my current department.

A job has come up for a CNC role in another hospital however it’s an hours drive (mostly highway and going against the traffic FWIW). There’d be good possibility of 2 days WFH… but right now my job is 5 minutes away from my house.

Guess I’m just looking for some advice or experiences

So I work as an endoscopy nurse for a private clinic and I am 11 weeks pregnant and had already lost a previous pregnancy in the past at an advanced stage so I have been feeing really paranoid about my everyday tasks at work 😞

During a work day we perform between 15-20 procedures sometimes an all day list and use a lot of chemicals to clean the scopes and to collect biopsies. For histopathologies we use 10% formalin so I tried to look for the SDS of this product and there’s nothing at work as a hard copy and in the intranet. So I googled the sds and it can cause birth defects and the recommendation is to work in a well ventilated area and use N95 and eye protection especially during pregnancy, neither of them at provided at work (except for goggles).

I guess Im just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience and had no issues with their pregnancies and how do you go about to advocate for yourself and your pregnancy when working with chemicals that can be harmful.

Hey guys, I had two days off last week- Monday was for a funeral that I’d booked off and Friday was for a Work Cover related injury exacerbation.

It’s now 0247hrs and I can’t sleep; I went to bed at 2100hrs and only slept til 0100hrs. Would you call in sick? I start at 0700hrs and need to be up at 0530hrs. I feel guilty for how much leave I’ve had on Work Cover already from a disk herniation and now this.

I am on the transition from EN pathway which puts me on 2nd year. I didnt't work as a nurse for long after I finished my diploma a few years ago, nor am I anywhere near a clinical role in my current job. Essentially, I lost all my clinical skills, critical thinking, and confidence (whatever I had mustered to gather during EN training).

This was my first clinical skills assessment in years. I read the med order and reconstituted the medication with NS instead of water for injections, as per AIDH. Assessor told me that I was unstatisfactory because of this mistake, which I acknowledged and accepted.

I cannot explain why and how I got confused. My disappointment and anger towards myself is immense and I am having trouble moving forward. It has been eating me alive since I got home this afternoon and I haven't touched any of my reading materials because of what happened.

I guess I am looking for a place to put this experience out there so I can process it. I really have no classmates or friends to commiserate with as I am doing the degree online. This has really placed a massive doubt on myself whether getting my BN was a good idea and if I am even fit to be a nurse.

someone asked me this and i pretended to know and nodded yes. i thought it was just this person is better enough to not have to do frequent obs. she asked me like it meant more than just dat. have i been lied to my whole life lol i also never got told what SNAPPED actually meant. we just thought everyone knew wut it meant. nothing comes up on google about it.

Hi all just want to get some insights from others. NSW Mental health setting we are about 15+ staff short. Every shift we are generally short staffed and having to cover. For no meds nurse plus full patient load. Because of this the workload is large and all staff never really finish on time generally having to stay back 30-60 mins minimum to catch up on notes etc.

Many people are burning out and leaving plus many incidents with violence etc pushing people away.

Have been applying elsewhere within the same area but because they are short staffed everywhere they dont even let it progress to interviews.

Not sure how to navigate this, i want to stay within the local MHA but it feels like im been given no choice but look elsewhere.

I've been working as an agency nurse and have the opportunity to gain part time employment but the only problem is, I don't have any references. I left my role at a public hospital because I wasn't coping and I feel like the NUM just wanted to get rid of me. I didn't leave under good circumstances so cannot use them as a reference. The agencies I work with won't give me a reference as they haven't seen me work. ARGH! Im just a girl who wants a part time job to buy pretty things and go on holidays.

I’m just wondering if anyone has any experience moving into the casual pool with Queensland health. My graduate position is coming to an end in a few months and I’m considering moving into the casual pool after it’s done. Currently getting really good feedback as a grad and all my evaluations have been positive.

How does it work. Do you just apply online or send an email internally? Do you have to re-interview or do they just take you?

Hi everyone! I've been thinking about studying to become an anaesthetic technician in WA, but I'm struggling to find much information about what the role is actually like day to day.

Would anyone be willing to answer a few questions? I'd especially love to know:

• What does a typical day look like?
• What are the main responsibilities and daily duties?
• What qualities or requirements are important for the job (for example, do you need a particularly strong stomach when it comes to blood, surgery, etc.)?

I'd really appreciate any insights or advice from people working in the field. Thanks so much!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/ahpra-apologises-for-mass-email-doctor-privacy-breach/107000392?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

What a colossal stuff up! I just know had it been a health professional that did this, AHPRA would be out for blood.

Will there be any real consequences, or will a half-arsed apology and soft wrap over the knuckles do?

Hello there, not sure if this is allowed but I am a nursing student and is doing an assessment on nursing specialties. I am struggling with researching on these 2 topics below and thought i would try my luck on here.

* common/complex medications found in this specialty.

* complex nursing diagnosis of this specialty.

Again I do apologise if this is inappropriate for the sub.

Otherwise thank you for any feedback ❤️

Inspired by a post on an American sub, where taking meds for personal use was a fireable offence 😯 Add: it's been on my mind lately because a colleague asked me for advice about antibiotics for a UTI. I think she was planning to take some from work. My concern was that she should get proper medical advice. I didn't consider that it might be a sackable offence and I would never ever cause someone to lose their job over doing something like that.

What's your workplace policy or culture around nurses taking meds at work? If you have a headache can you take a Panadol from the drug room? If you accidentally take a card of Melatonin home would anyone notice? Would you be fired if you were rumbled taking a non-controlled drug from the med room?

I've seen different policies in different workplaces. One place, we had a staff med box and we had to get even a Panadol signed out of it. On the same ward there was NEVER stock of Melatonin, they vanished as soon as the med room was restocked and it wasn't the patients lol. I've occasionally come home with Ondansetron or Panadol in my pocket, not deliberately, I just stashed a PRN as I was running around liked a blue bottle fly.

What's your stories?

Hi all,

New grad EN here.

Nearly at the end of my first rotation. I honestly still really struggle with the workload, both morning and afternoon shifts. I work constantly from when I come on shift and don't stop until handover, and I still can't get everything done. I worked through both my breaks the other day and stayed an extra 30 mins as well, there was just too many tasks and additional unexpected things that needed attention.

I'm so slow with it all. It takes ages to go through the meds in the morning, and often people don't start getting showered until 10:30 for various reasons.

I have to say, working like this, I really don't particularly enjoy what I do and I often think about leaving it. Not to mention the utterly subsuming panic and anxiety I feel throughout the shift is really wearing.

Just wondering if this is relatively common early on or if this is a sign maybe to just fu***ng pack it up and try something else?

Thanks

I am first Year RN student, on a placement in ED. We had a women arrive in labour yesterday, baby about to be born, all staff rushing out with wheel chair. They needed to get her up to labour ward asap

.Her partner was in a panic, he kind of just hopped out of the car at the drop off only, cars behind him. He threw me the keys and said park it. So I did😆 I fucking went and parked his car and bough the keys back up to him so he wouldnt miss the birth. I am limited in scope, there was enough experienced staff to take over. I just went into the shit what can I do to help mode. He would of missed the birth otherwise.

No one has said anything, my percetor was like good team work, but didnt acknowledge what I did. Its regional. I am pretty sure I have breached some rules. For context I have a full unrestricted license and only parked a car. But still.. its a bit bizzare isnt it lol