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Originally Posted by jaysay
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 |
Graduate nurses are
not good on the practical side John.......they haven't enough 'hands on' experience to be good.......what they have got, is an academic knowledge base, which might be seen as the way forward, but actually it isn't. University education was seen as a way to make nursing a 'profession'.........in my book you don't need a uni education to be professional....and as nursing is a practical skill...what you actually need to be a good and efficient nurse is
practical experience .... yes you do need some classroom learning, but you need the hands on practical stuff far more.
I think it takes years to get the kind of experience to look at a patient and know that they 'aren't right' without knowing just why they aren't right........we have doctors to decide on diagnoses. Nurses are there not to be pseudo doctors, but
to deliver care....and to do it with kindness and preserve the dignity of the patient.
I am glad I am no longer working in the NHS.........I think in a lot of ways it has fallen by the wayside.