When you are in a job, that will be in what we would call an established career or simply a means of bringing in the salary to pay for everything. There can be many reasons why someone doesn’t want to take steps to progress their career or opportunities open to them. Sometimes it is laziness, but often it is because they don’t actually realise there are ways to move up the progress ladder which can be taken entirely by themselves without intervention by others.

There are hundreds of suppliers and providers of training online courses in every topic imaginable. For a role focused course, some providers will concentrate on only that sort of role and the many permutations that might be open within it. We say nursing, but that now covers many different roles from community nurse or health visitor to midwife, to theatre nurse pre and post operative. In fact the list if probably inexhaustable and this is a good thing. However to reach the pinnacle in any one of them, a certain amount of self push is needed by a candidate and looking through the many and varied training or refresher courses availabe through their health service provider web site is a great start. If they work within a particular institute or hospital, they may become aware of openings which are not advertised as such – word gets around. To be in a good position to apply for a more responsible position, it is always necessary to be able to show a documented path from first training and early work in the unit to latter performance assessment reviews. To take additional training in one’s own time is a step towards indepedently fending for themselves and showing that they do not need to be hand held all their working life.

Selecting the right fource for the chosen career is a good point however and every job within a big organisation with have its own job description, clearly laying out the responsibilities and expectations of the finished outcome. It will also have a person description which has been carefully scripted to ensure that each applicant knows exactly what is expected of them and what they are required to bring to the role.