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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Teaching is a bit like Nursing and the NHS.
Systematic failings in Hospitals and Sir David Nicholson manages to slime his way out of responsibility......next news is David Cameron suggesting that nurses should 'learn' compassion by doing up to 12 months as a Health Care assistant before they can go on and train.
Most student nurses supplement their bursary by working as HCA's........and, can compassion be learned?
If we need to teach compassion to nursing candidates then we are choosing the wrong people to put into Uni.
NHS/Teaching...both political footballs. Directives issued from political leaders who have no concept of the problems at the coal face.
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Think we've travelled down that road before Margaret, you can't teach or learn compassion you either have it or not, and its easy to see too, It never takes me long to find out if any nurse lacks compassion, funnily over 30 years off being an in patient in 7 different hospitals I've come across very few thankfully, but it certainly something you can't teach. In a way its the same with people who work for care agencies, I've been quite lucky really I've had the same agency for going on 4 years now and I've had some really genuine people coming into my home, I lost my first carer when he was taken ill himself, since then I've had two more, both top rate and one girl and now I've got another male, so I've been very lucky in with this.