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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
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.
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Ya Margaret you don't learn how to change dressings fix an intravenous drip, give a patient a bed bath or help them to the toilet be it the loo or a bed pan, sat in a lecture room at Uni, nursing is about hands on dealing with the needs of patients.
Learning to be a nurse is like anything else, when I was serving my time as a joiner, I attended night school 1 day and two evenings a week the rest of the time was hands on working for my firm who were good enough to let me have a day release, 5 days at school would have been nice a cushie but would have done nothing to make sure that I was a competent tradesman in years to come