Nurses say stigma of working in a nursing home nurse job is unjustified
Moving straight into a nursing home nurse job for a newly qualified can still carry a stigma according to both student and qualified nurses on nurse twitter chat #NurChat. Despite the potential for greater salaries and the chance to develop delegation and management skills from the outset, a nursing home nurse job isn’t always seen as a valid career choice.
In the recent #NurChat on the topic of NHS nurse jobs vs nursing home jobs for newly qualified nurses, nursing homes were seen as the second choice career path, possibly due to unfounded stigma that it’s in some way a job for the less