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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I have my own views on this.
Taking nurses out of local schools of Nursing and putting them into Universities was not a good move(IMHO).
I served a sort of apprenticeship....a sandwich course in nursing. We were taught that the patients needs were paramount......they came above everything else(including meal breaks).
My experience of the University student nurses was that they were not interested in doing the basic stuff. Washing bottoms, changing patients, bathing patients, feeding patients(all activities which have such a personal touch to them, and which often lead patients to tell you their fears and worries....which you would never otherwise have known....and which you could then address)all they wanted to do was the technical things.
If I was going into nursing now, I would not be accepted. My education would not be deemed good enough........I would have had to go to college to do a foundation course.
I am glad I did my nursing when I did, because it was the best of times. the bit I enjoyed the most was caring for patients.......doing for them what I would want for a member of my own family....treating them with dignity.
We were not well paid and we worked very hard......but working hard is never a chore if you enjoy what you are doing.
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I was waiting to hear your views on this Margaret and I think your first statement says it all to me, nurses only acceptable if they qualify through a degree course
you don't learn compassion and caring at University, that has to come from inside. Its no surprise to me, and I've had plenty of on hand experience in this, is that the old school nurses who are still on the wards are a beacon for nursing, the "new" regime of grad nurses maybe good at the practical side of nursing but mostly come up shore in the most important aspect of the job, compassion and caring. I'm not saying that nurses are don't care, but when the first consideration is career, the nursing side seems to suffer and I've seen the change over the last 31 years of being treated as an in patient, its only when you can compare in this way is when you know there is a difference