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Comment on: Moving to an all graduate profession is a necessity
Wait and see guys. Wait and see. Australia introduced this academic rubbish years ago and now their nurses are unemployable on completion of their training. So many of the contributors here are unwilling to listen. It would be nice if the introduction of new training was evidence based. Perhaps some people have heard of that. It would involve finding out what has happened in those countries that have already substituted academic training for clinical training. Patients have a right to expect that a registered nurse who has completed 3 years training is fit to practice and is not just in the process of embarking on a journey of discovery. Wait and see for yourselves.
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Comment on: RCN launches legal action against safeguarding scheme
You know, whatever the rights and wrongs of this situation, from an individual nurse's point-of-view the best way of dealing with this threat is to move out of clinical work. If you as a nurse have sufficient experience, ability, and training then it would be wise to look for a transfer to managerial, administrative or project work. Of course it's sad if we have to do that but we have mortgages to pay and children to feed and I'm afraid that defensive career moves will become the wisest course of action with this new legislation.
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Comment on: Moving to an all graduate profession is a necessity
Most of these comments supporting academic training over clinical training seem to be based on no evidence. It's easy to find out what will happen in Britain. Just go to one of the countries that have abandoned clinical training for academic training. You'll see very few non-white nurses and equally few male nurses. Academic training eliminates diversity because it recruits from a small cadre of middle class white females who've progressed through the school system in the approved manner.
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Comment on: Moving to an all graduate profession is a necessity
Mr Goble, The point couldn't have been better made. The move away from clinical training and to academic training has been a disaster for patients although I appreciate that it's been good business for the universities. The universities, to give them their due, do a good job of employing those who are unemployable in the clinical setting. The sad irony is that their students won't become unemployable until after they've been through this new academic training.
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Comment on: Moving to an all graduate profession is a necessity
John Wilson, I've worked for many years in Australia and am well aware of the shameful mess that passes for nurse education there. I'm told by degree nurse graduates that they start learning when they complete their degree. If that is the case then why do they bother studying the degree? Surely, by the time they qualify after three years' training the public have a right to expect that they are competent to the level of a registered nurse. Unfortunately, by the time they've got their degree the damage is done and they are unlikely ever to become useful nurses. If you doubt me then ask any British nurse who's ever worked in Australia.
