Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHS
Christina Nolan
Birmingham
I am currently a third year student nurse studying a Diploma in adult Nursing at BCU
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Comment on: Our students’ dedication is a credit to the profession
At last someone sees it from our point of view. It would do well for every qualified member of staff who has a mentorship qulification to read this article, and to sit back and reflect upon it. Many thanks Mr Radcliffe from a nursing student
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Comment on: Student nurse funding to get radical reform
it appears to me that the government are making it increasingly harder for people to become nurses. Yet they say they are crying out for people to become nurses. Why can't the British Government, have thought about this funding before now, it would certainly have made everyones life easier and have just given the degree students the full non means tested bursary in the first place. Or we could just go back to the good old days when nurses had more practical hands on experience and got paid a wage, for the sifts that they worked, but there again I suppose this does not bode well with the "nursing should be more academic" camp. What good is a nurse who can write an essay on Progression of Personal and Professional Development using critical ananlysis in a model of reflection, but can't deal with someone who is 90 years of age has dementia and is defecating themselves every 2 minutes. I think that the balance between academia and placement works quite well at the moment, and if it aint broke don't try and fix it. Also for those diploma students at present, will we be expected to upgrade our qulification at sometime in the future to a degree ( like the some of the old SEN's had to upgrade their's to a diploma in recent times) and are we going to be any less of a nurse than someone with a degree I think not.
