YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN NURSING HELPED TO She returned to nursing by working for an agency and went to work for one shift in the A & E at the Queens Medical Hospital, Nottingham and loved it so much carried on working there as an Agency nurse for over 2 years. She gained experience working in a very busy A & E department and even had one of the patients even tried to strangle her, but she lived to tell the tale. Two years later, she moved to London, where she worked in Nursing and then returned to Medical Sales for a while, during this time in 2007 she had a bad car accident involving a lorry on the M11. She sustained bad whiplash and soft tissue and shoulder injuries resulting in many months of restricted movement, intensive therapy and living with chronic pain. During this time, she began to reconnect with her faith and knew she had to get her life back on track personally and professionally and decided she wanted to go back into nursing full time. She happened to be browsing through Nursing Times magazine and saw an advert for a
Janet Whitwell-Caisey was born in Blackburn and at the age of 6 moved to Garswood, near Wigan with her parents who were managing, then bought a newsagent and off-license.
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elping her parents gave her a great business grounding. Unfortunately, she decided she didn’t want to follow in the family business and moved to St Margaret’s School of Nursing in Essex, in 1985 she qualified as an Enrolled Nurse. She moved to Bolton General as a Theatre Nurse, then in 1989 she went to Liverpool Women’s Hospital and during this time seconded to John Moore’s University, where she qualified as a Registered Nurse Level One. In 1994 she moved to Cambridge, and during this time had the honour of working at the renowned Royal Papworth hospital. She gained valuable experience and knowledge of open heart, lung and Transplant surgery and the impact this can have on patients and their families. At the age of 36, she felt completely burnt out with her nursing life and decided to take a break and enter the business world of Medical Sales and worked for Johnson & Johnson Vascular Access division, covering East Anglia Area. She was very successful in this, even though still working in hospitals she missed her passion for providing nursing care to patients. 136
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Theatre Nurse in Bermuda. She successfully got the job for a 3-year contract and took a leap of faith to change her life again, it was a hard decision to leave her parents in the UK, because her only sibling, her brother was already living in the USA. In February 2008 she set off to her new chapter and challenge, back to Nursing. Working as a Theatre Nurse, she later transferred to the A and E. In 2016 decided to go to the Hospice, which was still attached to the hospital. She now had spent 8 years in Bermuda and only gone for 3. Her plan was to gain experience in hospice and return to this field in England, due to recognising her parents’ ageing and health slowly deteriorating. Very often we have plans, but life throws us a curveball, and Janet’s was she was set up on a blind date by a work colleague and had no idea she was about to meet the man of her dreams and future husband, Louis, known as Junior. They shared a lot in common, especially both known chatterboxes. In 2018 they got married in Bermuda, sadly her father was taken into hospital a few weeks before, and her mother was suddenly on her own, after 61 years of marriage, so Janet made an emergency visit to arrange carers for her mum to support her during this time. On return to Bermuda for her wedding, Janet’s mum was able to be part of the marriage ceremony via Facetime. Janet started travelling back and forward but sadly lost her father in February 2019, at this time she was a director in a Nursing home in Bermuda and decided to leave this to enable her to support her mother. Following a visit at www.lancmag.com
