Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHS
lesley_frater@hotmail.com
Tyne and Wear
I came to nursing at the age of 42 when I was working as a HCA. I qualified in 2000 and my background was emergency medicine for over 3 years until I took up a post in a nurse lead Urgent Care Team. After a year of working in this team, I completed my Advanced Nursing Degree and started a MSc in First Contact, plus taking up my current post of Advanced Clinician in general practice. I work in First Contact along with my two GP colleagues and I manage a team of nurses and HCA's. I belong to the local PBC team and have developed expertise and special interest in people who present with anxiety and depression. I am at the research and dissertation stage of my MSc and will go on to complete a professional doctorate in the next two years after a small break from academia!
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Comment on: Government unconvinced by advanced nurse regulation
CHRE chief executive Harry Cayton states there is no reason to regulate Advanced Practice. As an advanced clinician working in a Gp practice I totally disagree. I have spent over ten year studying academically and continue to do so to enable me to work as I do in practice. It annoys me greatly that nurses or anyone else can call themselves an advanced practitioner with no set academic requisite or register to safegaurd patients.
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Comment on: NMC refutes dumbing down of EU nurse entry requirements
Anonymous | 11-Feb-2011 2:19 pm You made comment that EU nurses would be lowering their professional standards and state they have a broader general education and are more academically qualified, then why would they want to work in the UK? Also if this is true you would have no problem in passing the test. I don't think my nuursing or academic education is better than others but different, if i wanted to work in the USA I would have to pass a test and prove my abilities.
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Comment on: NHS Direct offers services to GPs
I visited your website www.call111.com. Your thoughts on patient's taking up GP appointments, visiting A+E with minor health issues that could be self-managed easily is right, over usage of antibiotics is also right. But your website information is full of poor grammer, so appears very unprofessional. There is no research or journal articles that you have written mentioned, so no true evidence! I'm sorry but I feel NT's is not the place to promote MAYA. This tool appears to be aimed at patients so I have searched the top medical journals and research databases and no studied for MAYA have been completed. Please can you provide up to date research for a tool you want the public to buy into!
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Comment on: NMC refutes dumbing down of EU nurse entry requirements
Why! Why! would you offer EU nurses who opt and fail the new test an opportunity the complete a period of adaption. This does not bode well for nursing in the UK!
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Comment on: Primary care roles to expand under mental health strategy
Don't you just hate it when people make a comment but fail to give their names? My MSc was completed at Sheffield Hallum and originally was called First Contact Practitioner. Now however it is a MSc in advanced Practice. But I'm sure Anonymous 2:22 was fully aware of that factor, but if you got a kick out of your comment instead of discussing the subject then I feel sorry for you! I think there are more important matters that need discussing other than my academic qualifications. Next time why not put your name!
