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48 minutes ago, Philipkee said:

 

Question 1 is tricky.  We used to restrain all patients who were violent.  Now with JCI and such, I am not sure the latest practice.  Last I know is that if there is no family to consent (and obviously patient cannot consent), a doctor's order will suffice.   But this might be outdated practice.  I left in 2011 to go into teaching and where I am now.  Teaching, I can afford to be idealistic and say do this and that, dont restrain.  In real life, different story.

I had also heard of this JCI kicks in and there are lots of 'old protol call' used to practice in the wards had been abolish. Like to restrain a patient in whatever reasons, an order from the doc is good enough as 2 yrs back my grand went through a brain surgery and being not conscious of what is going on she has a high change to pull out all her IV lines.The surgeon ordered her to be restrain.

48 minutes ago, Philipkee said:

Double pay?  Please let me know who offers that in public hospitals.  You only get off in lieu.  Private hospitals are different.  You can get double pay for it.  But it means no off in lieu.  You "sell" your PH.

Ha ha for this is just a random ask, as nowadays lots of highlight of work fair practice is to be in place just a random ask.

48 minutes ago, Philipkee said:

Actually specialist nursing definition varies but let me explain

General nursing - bedside nursing in "normal wards".  More on that later.

Specialist nursing- nursing in specialised areas like OT, A&E, ICU .....  To work in a specialist area, it is preferred that you have worked in general nursing in the wards first  before you transfer down though it's not a requirement.

The next question is what actually defines a specialist nurse. I can be a fresh graduate in A&E.  It doesnt make me an emergency specialist.  What happens is that generally, you are expected to go through an advanced diploma before being called a specialist in that area.  Example.  Advanced diploma in nursing (emergency) when u work in emergency department.  And no, you wont get advanced diploma in  nursing (perioperative) when working in emergency department.  Its almost 100% related to where u work. 

There have been stories about nurses in emergency dept being offered advance diploma in nursing (gerontology). I will say be very careful cos nursing dept might be planning to transfer you to the ward after graduation (and you cant say no as you have  bond) as they are short of staff.  I would say it's a trap :D unless were looking for a way out of where you work.

I say generally because some very senior nurses might not have advanced diploma but are considered specialists due to their experience and they might have gone for in house courses as well.

Now general ward.  What defines a normal ward?  Usually it has the name general med/surg meaning everything also can. Jack of all trades.  If ward is defined as orthopedic ward, DEPENDS on who you ask, it can be considered a specialist ward since you learn about speciality (orthopedics) and the ward is full of orthopedic patients.  But depends on who you ask.  When I was a  nurse in a c class gen med/surg ward, we considered ourselves specialists in all inpatient cases since we handle everything and complain why ortho ward nurses can get specialist allowance just by being in that ward when they only handle ortho cases while we handle everything but get nothing- heard they dropped specialist allowance after that and only give the allowance for passing advanced diploma instead :D

Can you be a specialist nurse in a general ward? Yes.  Some have gone through advanced diploma in  nursing  (gerontology) or (orthopedics) and carried on working in the wards but are generally recognised as specialists working in a general or specialised area (an orthopedic trained nurse can work in a general ward as well as an ortho ward).

I seem to focus a lot on speciality but it's my belief that if you want to grow in this career IN SINGAPORE, you will need to decide on a speciality and whether this speciality requires you to actually work in a specialised area (can be specialised ward or dept).  I stress in Singapore because advanced diploma might not be recognised in australia for example, in case you were hoping to migrate there with your nursing cert.

Hope you have not been confused.

To confuse you further there are "specialist" hospitals like KKWCH which focuses on ob/gyn and paeds or IMH which focus on mental health.  But I will stop here.

Wow, thanks this bring a clearer pic of 'specialist'. so it does really variant on how hospital look at a nurse being specialist. 

Now I understand when my teacher whom is teaching us TA cert, she says if you stay in National heart center all the way and later part you decide to take your Advance dip in critical care(nursing) u will be a specialist nurse in critical care. It highly have to gel with the daily kind of cases you deal with at work and also u upgrade in the knowledge(in academically)

*Things might get a bit complicated as indeed I am going to work in one of those 'specialist' hospital you had mentioned and 'build' my career there.

Thanks again!

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Hey all, if those interest to ask more on the PCP programe switch to nurses, there is a singhealth open house where all your questions will be answered there and u get to talk to the nurses themselves on their job.

just check out singhealth website to get more detail.

 

https://www.singhealth.com.sg/careers/nurses-the-heartbeat-of-healthcare

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Hi all, just wanna give my 2 cents worth regarding PCP. 

Graduated from PCP (diploma). Working as a staff nurse currently, ward based. 

Currently, there's PCP (degree) available but since I didn't went through that route, I won't be able to give any input. 

Curriculum 2 years of studies

Sem 1 - Sem 3

15 - 16 weeks : Study (projects, tests, exams, skills) 

7 -8 weeks : Attachments at various hospital/discipline. PCP students are bonded, usually we go to our sponsored hospital for attachment except for special posting (eg. IMH, KKH) 

2 weeks : Holiday break 

Sem 4  

7- 8 weeks : Study (projects, tests, exams, skills) 

5 weeks : Community hospital, A&E, Operating theatre (may have change along the years, heard from some other students they get to attach to ICU as well) 

12 weeks : Pre-registration consolidation posting (whereby you work under a staff nurse, doing the roles of a staff nurse) 

Generally, I didn't find studying difficult since I had science-related background. However, I did have classmates who had to work harder since a lot of biology terms and pharmacology terms are new to them. With hard work, they still manage to do well with As & Bs. 

Many project work and presentation, so work well with your group mates and contribute, you will be able to minimally get Bs. I would say 60% to 70% of exams/tests are MCQ. Hence, if you are pretty good at MCQ, then it's generally quite easy to pass. 

Attachment wise, rotated between AM (7am to 3pm) and PM (1pm to 9pm) shift. Clinical posting can be fun or boring, but if you are in your first year, first posting, tag along the assistant nurse. They will be the ones who will be able to make your posting time pass faster. Usually staff nurse are really really busy with the in-charge work. 

Generally, the studying of 2 years was do-able. However, I did have classmates who drop-out in the midst or break the bond after working. To pay back after breaking bond is really a hefty sum (approx. $50k to $100k). Really consider hard whether you are able to commit for the next 5 years (2 years studying + 3 years bond) of your life to nursing. Think about family commitments, personal commitments, are you able to sustain with lesser income? Mentally are you strong to handle patients (complains, death, blame for everything)? If there's any other questions on PCP, pls ask in the thread ! 🙂

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38 minutes ago, Hellobelle said:

Hi all, just wanna give my 2 cents worth regarding PCP. 

Graduated from PCP (diploma). Working as a staff nurse currently, ward based. 

Currently, there's PCP (degree) available but since I didn't went through that route, I won't be able to give any input. 

Curriculum 2 years of studies

Sem 1 - Sem 3

15 - 16 weeks : Study (projects, tests, exams, skills) 

7 -8 weeks : Attachments at various hospital/discipline. PCP students are bonded, usually we go to our sponsored hospital for attachment except for special posting (eg. IMH, KKH) 

2 weeks : Holiday break 

Sem 4  

7- 8 weeks : Study (projects, tests, exams, skills) 

5 weeks : Community hospital, A&E, Operating theatre (may have change along the years, heard from some other students they get to attach to ICU as well) 

12 weeks : Pre-registration consolidation posting (whereby you work under a staff nurse, doing the roles of a staff nurse) 

Generally, I didn't find studying difficult since I had science-related background. However, I did have classmates who had to work harder since a lot of biology terms and pharmacology terms are new to them. With hard work, they still manage to do well with As & Bs. 

Many project work and presentation, so work well with your group mates and contribute, you will be able to minimally get Bs. I would say 60% to 70% of exams/tests are MCQ. Hence, if you are pretty good at MCQ, then it's generally quite easy to pass. 

Attachment wise, rotated between AM (7am to 3pm) and PM (1pm to 9pm) shift. Clinical posting can be fun or boring, but if you are in your first year, first posting, tag along the assistant nurse. They will be the ones who will be able to make your posting time pass faster. Usually staff nurse are really really busy with the in-charge work. 

Generally, the studying of 2 years was do-able. However, I did have classmates who drop-out in the midst or break the bond after working. To pay back after breaking bond is really a hefty sum (approx. $50k to $100k). Really consider hard whether you are able to commit for the next 5 years (2 years studying + 3 years bond) of your life to nursing. Think about family commitments, personal commitments, are you able to sustain with lesser income? Mentally are you strong to handle patients (complains, death, blame for everything)? If there's any other questions on PCP, pls ask in the thread ! 🙂

This is very informative, esp. breaking the bond part, din know the penalty is so hefty, thanks for sharing.

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On 1/14/2020 at 11:04 AM, Cheesey74 said:

This is very informative, esp. breaking the bond part, din know the penalty is so hefty, thanks for sharing.

Actually look in another way. The penalty is not very hefty once you consider the allowances and school fees.(if any).

Last time in NYP (1995-1998) if u r sponsored by hospital, if you break bond you just pay back the amount paid to you plus 10%.  So it's not a lot until have to pay back the bond and you realise you spent all your allowances :D

But let's say school fees are covered.  Then it really depends on how high are the school fees.  Cos you dont see the money as its paid to the school directly but you need to cough from your own pocket if you are paying back.

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@Hellobelle, Thanks for the input for PCP programe. Went to NYP open house and followed by singhealth open house for nurses. 

In NYP open house it had given me a better inside of nursing is just not only on bedside care but there are lots of areas of expertise one can considered. Had also spoken to some of the lecturers at NYP and one of them had also said the 2 yr Diploma in Nursing for PCP is really all about time management but still doable. Maybe the negative feedback which I had gotten from another friend of mine under the same scheme she might have some time management issue which cause her to struggle a great time now. also spoken to a few of their yr 1 and yr2 students whom had worked in hospital as enrolled nurse and now upgrading themselves. Also spoken to a few mature students not under PCP but sponsored by their choice of hospital and doing their 3 yr program at NYP. A few of them also told me about apply burseries to help out on the schools fees.(yearly is about 3K, toal is 3k x 3=9k for the whole diploma)

The open house by singhealth had also open my mindset on the role of nursing in a OT(operating theatre). We actually have a tour on their OT and see the different kind of surgery done, anesthetic role and pre-opt role. Maybe Philipkee can share more details of nursing roles in a OT.

As for me, the first step for me now is to enroll into ITE nursing course under PCP and keeping my fingers cross the shortlisted MOD hospital will be able to sponsor. (one is allow to have 3 choices of MOH hospital for sponsorship)

As for moving up to Diploma in nursing after graduate from ITE nursing...I guess I will have a better bet in applying sponsorship from hospital and be bonded. Cos so far I don't think anyone had apply for PCP programme twice? Correct me if I am wrong if anyone knows a individual had apply PCP twice to advance up their career in nursing.

The next I am more interested to know is what will be the school load and expectation of ITE nursing program like? As for now I do know NYP's program is more of exam, group work, presentation and clinician attachments.

It will be good to know some inside of what is the expectation of ITE nursing program like.

 

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@Hellobelle just a question on salary for registered nurse. But is ok not to answer if not comfortable.

 What is the salary range for a ward base registered nurse and how does shift allowance comes into the pic?

Thanks

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3 hours ago, Lynmei said:

@Hellobelle just a question on salary for registered nurse. But is ok not to answer if not comfortable.

 What is the salary range for a ward base registered nurse and how does shift allowance comes into the pic?

Thanks

Hee.  Let me answer.  From my ex students, around $1800 - $2000 a month as of about two years ago for diploma in nursing.  Degree it depends cos most people with a degree in nursing and just started out in  nursing have the degree from NUS and the pay scale is different.

Generally as a nurse in the ward you have

- basic salary (everyone has it)

- shift allowance (you have it if you are doing shift duties.  You might be office hours or maybe on one month orientation on office hours so you might not get it then).  Shift allowance is  broken down into three.  All three have different amounts.

A)  three rotating shifts.  

B)  two rotating shifts - morning and afternoon shift but no night shift (maybe you are based in a day ward or have medical condition).

C)  permanent night shift - but I heard hospitals are phasing them out so depends on where you work.

- meal allowance - it's only a few dollars for every afternoon and night shift you work.  IIRC none for morning shifts or office hours.

Hope this helps 

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14 hours ago, Lynmei said:

 

The open house by singhealth had also open my mindset on the role of nursing in a OT(operating theatre). We actually have a tour on their OT and see the different kind of surgery done, anesthetic role and pre-opt role. Maybe Philipkee can share more details of nursing roles in a OT.

 

OT you have many roles.  Generally they are not interchangeable once you are fixed in a role but you learn all roles 

Admission nurse

- you receive the patient from the ane or the ward.  You job is to make sure all the details are correct and patient is fasted and so on.

- you will either call the patient to be sent from the ane or the ward.  Or you instruct a receptionist to do so.  Depends on hospital.

Anesthetic nurse

- Assist the anesthetist in drawing out drugs, intubation and setting of IV.  Monitoring of vitals during the surgery.  Usually a very boring job with  bursts of activity before and after the surgery.

Scrub/circulating nurse

- these roles are interchangeable BUT a scrub nurse is more highly in demand.  The scrub nurse is the one who actually is gowned in sterile gear and assists the surgeon in the operation.  The circulating nurse helps to keep track of all the equipment and opens up new equipment as necessary.  The circulating nurse is not scrubbed up so she is not sterile.  So this nurse can get extra equipment or pick up dropped instruments and such.  Usually they rotate among themselves.  Rare for someone to be scrub nurse throughout or circulating throughout.

Recovery room nurse

- you receive the patient from the OT.  Your job is to ensure that the patient recovers and does not turn bad after surgery.  After the patient is stable and usually signed off by anesthetics, you can call the ward or get a receptionist to call the ward to fetch the patient.

OT is a controlled environment.  It's rare to have patients rushed in without prior notification for surgery.  It happened before but in private sector and even then the surgeon was the one rushing patient in so it wasnt exactly a surprise.

Hope this helps

 

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On 1/22/2020 at 3:04 PM, Philipkee said:

OT you have many roles.  Generally they are not interchangeable once you are fixed in a role but you learn all roles 

Admission nurse

- you receive the patient from the ane or the ward.  You job is to make sure all the details are correct and patient is fasted and so on.

- you will either call the patient to be sent from the ane or the ward.  Or you instruct a receptionist to do so.  Depends on hospital.

Anesthetic nurse

- Assist the anesthetist in drawing out drugs, intubation and setting of IV.  Monitoring of vitals during the surgery.  Usually a very boring job with  bursts of activity before and after the surgery.

Scrub/circulating nurse

- these roles are interchangeable BUT a scrub nurse is more highly in demand.  The scrub nurse is the one who actually is gowned in sterile gear and assists the surgeon in the operation.  The circulating nurse helps to keep track of all the equipment and opens up new equipment as necessary.  The circulating nurse is not scrubbed up so she is not sterile.  So this nurse can get extra equipment or pick up dropped instruments and such.  Usually they rotate among themselves.  Rare for someone to be scrub nurse throughout or circulating throughout.

Recovery room nurse

- you receive the patient from the OT.  Your job is to ensure that the patient recovers and does not turn bad after surgery.  After the patient is stable and usually signed off by anesthetics, you can call the ward or get a receptionist to call the ward to fetch the patient.

OT is a controlled environment.  It's rare to have patients rushed in without prior notification for surgery.  It happened before but in private sector and even then the surgeon was the one rushing patient in so it wasnt exactly a surprise.

Hope this helps

 

@Philipkee thanks again for your replies. Actually I was looking for more info on recovery room nurse roles and anesthetic nurse. Yes I am the kind like infor to be given before hand and plan for and do prefer boring and monitoring task.Surprises and inprompt action kind of stress me out.

3 questions: 

Kind of not able to see the difference between recovery room nurse and anesthetic nurse on the patient waking up from the anesthesia. What is the diff?

Is there any chance for an enrolled nurse to be station at OT? (4th day at my work place and so far had seen EN at specialist clinic, wards, childern's emergency) My current TA does not warrent me to be at OT.

What r the common working shift in OT?

 

To add on the shift timing, I know someone as a RN in a private hospital and the shift are plan the local nurses most on morning and afternoon shift. the nights are mostly taken by the foreign nurses. Maybe in a month the local only does 4 days of night shift. I think that soinds good.

 

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8 minutes ago, Lynmei said:

@Philipkee 

3 questions: 

Kind of not able to see the difference between recovery room nurse and anesthetic nurse on the patient waking up from the anesthesia. What is the diff?

Is there any chance for an enrolled nurse to be station at OT? (4th day at my work place and so far had seen EN at specialist clinic, wards, childern's emergency) My current TA does not warrent me to be at OT.

What r the common working shift in OT?

 

My experience.

1)  anesthetic nurse helps anethetist in drawing out drugs and intubation.  The nurse doesnt intubate (not in Singapore at least) but assists the anesthetist.  And monitors the patient throughout the surgery.

The recovery  nurse takes over from thr anesthetic nurse in the recovery room.  The recovery room nurse monitors the patient and makes sure the patient is stable to be sent to the ward.

Difference in roles?  Not that much if you exclude the drugs and intubation part.  Basically they monitor patient.  Just one during surgery and one post surgery.

2)  Not too sure about EN role.  But usually EN cannot be scrub or circulating nurse but I have seen EN in other roles in OT.

3)  Hours? From experience?  Bulk are office hours cos that is when the elective surgeries happen.  There are three shifts though to handle the emergency operations that can happen any time.  But most are office hours.

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2 hours ago, Lynmei said:

@Philipkee 

To add on the shift timing, I know someone as a RN in a private hospital and the shift are plan the local nurses most on morning and afternoon shift. the nights are mostly taken by the foreign nurses. Maybe in a month the local only does 4 days of night shift. I think that soinds good.

 

It is good until one day you realise that what is done during the night is different from day shifts.

That is why management try to restrict permanent nights.  Different cultures develop.  Not to forget OT is relatively separate from rest of hospital and it's easier to develop own practices without getting found out.

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14 hours ago, Philipkee said:

My experience.

1)  anesthetic nurse helps anethetist in drawing out drugs and intubation.  The nurse doesnt intubate (not in Singapore at least) but assists the anesthetist.  And monitors the patient throughout the surgery.

The recovery  nurse takes over from thr anesthetic nurse in the recovery room.  The recovery room nurse monitors the patient and makes sure the patient is stable to be sent to the ward.

Difference in roles?  Not that much if you exclude the drugs and intubation part.  Basically they monitor patient.  Just one during surgery and one post surgery.

2)  Not too sure about EN role.  But usually EN cannot be scrub or circulating nurse but I have seen EN in other roles in OT.

3)  Hours? From experience?  Bulk are office hours cos that is when the elective surgeries happen.  There are three shifts though to handle the emergency operations that can happen any time.  But most are office hours.

@Philipkee Thanks for explaining the diff of anesthestic nurse and recovery room nurse.

By any chance can share what r the roles avaliable for enrolled nurse in OT that u know of?

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46 minutes ago, Lynmei said:

@Philipkee Thanks for explaining the diff of anesthestic nurse and recovery room nurse.

By any chance can share what r the roles avaliable for enrolled nurse in OT that u know of?

Recovery, anesthetic nurse and admission nurse.  I have seen both RN and EN do these roles.  Scrub nurse and circulating so far its always been registered  nurses.

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On 1/22/2020 at 2:53 PM, Philipkee said:

Hee.  Let me answer.  From my ex students, around $1800 - $2000 a month as of about two years ago for diploma in nursing.  Degree it depends cos most people with a degree in nursing and just started out in  nursing have the degree from NUS and the pay scale is different.

Generally as a nurse in the ward you have

- basic salary (everyone has it)

- shift allowance (you have it if you are doing shift duties.  You might be office hours or maybe on one month orientation on office hours so you might not get it then).  Shift allowance is  broken down into three.  All three have different amounts.

A)  three rotating shifts.  

B)  two rotating shifts - morning and afternoon shift but no night shift (maybe you are based in a day ward or have medical condition).

C)  permanent night shift - but I heard hospitals are phasing them out so depends on where you work.

- meal allowance - it's only a few dollars for every afternoon and night shift you work.  IIRC none for morning shifts or office hours.

Hope this helps 

@Lynmei

Hi there, yup as what has been mentioned above. 

Usually starting pay (for usual ward based nurses), 

Assistant nurse (ITE grad) : I am really not sure, sorry I can't answer this.... 

Staff nurse (fresh diploma & degree grad)

- Diploma (Start as SN2) approx low 2k+

- Degree (Start as SN1) approx 3k+ (I am not exactly sure since I didn't graduate from degree, only hearsay) 

Afternoon and night shift allowance are fixed, so for it doesn't matter whether you are SN2 or SN1 the monthly allowance from shift can be between $150 to $300 depending on the shifts you are doing. 

For eg. SN2 (fresh grad diploma holder), 

$2000 (basic salary) + $300 (allowance) = $2300 (per month) 

Take home (due to cpf) : $2300 x 80% = $1840 

For eg. SN1 (fresh grad degree holder), 

$3000 (basic salary) + $300 (allowance) = $3300 (per month) 

Take home (due to cpf) : $2300 x 80% = $2640 

*Currently the hospital I am working for doesn't give any meal allowance. 

*Operating theatres allowance is different so I am not so sure how it works over there. 

Tbh, it's a little upsetting that a fresh grad SN1 and SN2 is doing the exact same thing with drastic pay differences. But I guess it really depends on what you want to grow out of this career, and that will decide whether you want to further your studies. I have seen many assistant nurses being happy at where they are, being assistant nurse for >10 years. They get to go home on time, lesser stress of making errors, being able to spend more time with patients to build rapport. 

 

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5 minutes ago, Philipkee said:

Recovery, anesthetic nurse and admission nurse.  I have seen both RN and EN do these roles.  Scrub nurse and circulating so far its always been registered  nurses.

@Philipkee, ahh I see..these roles r good enough for me when I graduated to be EN.

Hope my application to PCP for 2021 intake is successful. Wish me luck.

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10 minutes ago, Hellobelle said:

@Lynmei

Hi there, yup as what has been mentioned above. 

Usually starting pay (for usual ward based nurses), 

Assistant nurse (ITE grad) : I am really not sure, sorry I can't answer this.... 

Staff nurse (fresh diploma & degree grad)

- Diploma (Start as SN2) approx low 2k+

- Degree (Start as SN1) approx 3k+ (I am not exactly sure since I didn't graduate from degree, only hearsay) 

Afternoon and night shift allowance are fixed, so for it doesn't matter whether you are SN2 or SN1 the monthly allowance from shift can be between $150 to $300 depending on the shifts you are doing. 

For eg. SN2 (fresh grad diploma holder), 

$2000 (basic salary) + $300 (allowance) = $2300 (per month) 

Take home (due to cpf) : $2300 x 80% = $1840 

For eg. SN1 (fresh grad degree holder), 

$3000 (basic salary) + $300 (allowance) = $3300 (per month) 

Take home (due to cpf) : $2300 x 80% = $2640 

*Currently the hospital I am working for doesn't give any meal allowance. 

*Operating theatres allowance is different so I am not so sure how it works over there. 

Tbh, it's a little upsetting that a fresh grad SN1 and SN2 is doing the exact same thing with drastic pay differences. But I guess it really depends on what you want to grow out of this career, and that will decide whether you want to further your studies. I have seen many assistant nurses being happy at where they are, being assistant nurse for >10 years. They get to go home on time, lesser stress of making errors, being able to spend more time with patients to build rapport. 

 

@Hellobelle yesh I do agree on some EN r happy as they r. This is what observe as I followed some of my physiotherapist for my orientation. I think I am stressing some of my therapist of being a TA with super strong and sharp observation skills. Can feel a few of them are not comfortable with sharp observation skills.

Can see the stress as an EN is not really there and they do get to spend a bit more time with the patient.

Thanks again for explaining the pay breakdown like. Yes, nursing in OT is very different from the ward setting and specialist clinics and etc.

As I say, I enjoy doing bored job and strong observation skills and monitoring skills are my strong point. Maybe is my calling for nursing in this setting and role.

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23 hours ago, Lynmei said:

@Philipkee, ahh I see..these roles r good enough for me when I graduated to be EN.

Hope my application to PCP for 2021 intake is successful. Wish me luck.

All the best ! 

Anyway, maybe I can share my experience for application process for PCP. 

The timeline of the application process is as what is mentioned on the website. 

1. Application Period

Points to note : Ensure that your application is complete, no missing details. Provide all information they require. 

2. Short-listing Process by WSG and Partners

Points to note : There's nothing much to do, except to wait for the call. 

3. Interview at MOH Holdings

Points to note : Do it like how you will go for any job interview. Prepare for questions.

eg. background, qualifications, working experience, why you want to join the nursing profession (give about 2 to 3 reasons, present it like a story), what are the reasons you choose the sponsoring hospital, how will you deal with stressful situation, complain patient. 

Briefly remember mine was along the line of wanting to do a degree in nursing after poly after talking to a friend who was in nursing in poly. However was rejected by nus nursing so went to do something else. In my first job, I had some personal experience of family members having some medical issues and not knowing what to do and was admitted. Then had good experience with a particular hospital and blah blah blah. (Sometimes it doesn't hurt to bootlick a little.)

During your application, you will choose up to 3 sponsoring hospital. It is a panel interview, about 4 people was there if I remembered correctly (1 admin from MOHH + 3 other higher rank (NC/NM/APN) nursing people from various hospital). 

Just be honest and sincere as to why you want to join the nursing profession. Use your daily transferrable skills at your current work place and apply it to nursing. 

4. Clinical Observation with Sponsoring Organisation

Points to note : Report to HR, they will bring you to the ward, then you just observe the nurses as to what they do. I remember I observed NGT feeding. At the end of the clinical observation, the nurse manager will ask some questions as to why you want to join. I don't really know what is their deciding factor on whether you will be chosen or not.  

5. Enrolment Procedures

Points to note : Sign deed with sponsoring hospital, go for health check, school sends you an enrolment package and enrol accordingly. 

6. Class Commencement

Points to note : Prepare for school ! 

The whole process actually takes a few months. Hence, you have to take leave (approx. 3 days) to go for these : 

1. Interview at MOH

2. Clinical observation 

3. Sign deed, health check 

Don't tender your resignation until you confirm you are officially enrolled with all documents signed. 

Lmk if there are more questions ! 

 

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