pembroke allan wrote:Foghorn65 wrote:We should be training people to perform all aspects of health care. There is always vacancies for health care professionals.
Why don't we invest in this essential area?
I've no issue with overseas recruitment but with many unemployed here, why don't we concentrate on filling the gaps?
Not enough people want to do the degree nessasary to be a qualified nurse plus when do qualify they go off to private sector/agencies
or abroad after a years experience! Also cut backs mean often or not when someone leaves a post they're not replaced and this applies to all levels of staff drs physio nurses ...
Degrees for nurses are a stupid waste of time. It is an ego thing.
Being able to write an essay is not going top make you a caring person.
Why do you need a degree to make a bed, hand out paracetamol, or change a drip?
These tasks can be learnt "on the job" in a short period of time under guidance from a more experienced person.
The vast majority of nurses have no decision making, responsibility, accountability roles anyway
They just carry out the decisions and orders that doctors make. A nurse can only issue medicine that a doctor has prescribed, they can only alter a drip if the doctor gives them permission to do so.
Why does a theatre nurse need a degree to just hand instruments to a surgeon? He/she has no input into an operation other than as a goffer for the surgeon. A day or 2 spent learning instruments names (Scalpel, forceps, needle etc) would suffice.