Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHS
catherine lucas
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Comment on: All-graduate detractors branded sexist
“It isn’t just wizzy techy skills, it’s the ability to sit with someone with schizophrenia and talk to them, or with a new mum who could potentially abuse their child.” Do they teach you how to do this on a degree programme? I see very few graduate nurses that feel their role incorporates talking to clients. The bread and butter of mental health nursing is communication and interpersonal skills which cannot be taught. Sadly, we have a 2 tier nursing system as a result of there being 2 levels of entry qualification. Diploma qualified nurses are already being made to feel less respected, despite years of professional and life experience and are being upstaged by graduates with none of these essential attributes. How can we be having a recruitment crisis one minute and then raising the entry level the next? Surely Diploma for all would make more sense? "Caring" is not gender specific as I'm sure many men will agree. I think this is evidence of womens paranoia and oversensitivity that they feel the patronised. The Media may be male dominated but in this case it is also right! I'm proud that my clients feel I care about them individually and if I could have a "caring nurse" badge, I'd wear it with pride rather than burning my bra!!
