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Originally Posted by susie123
Totally agree about the foolishness of requiring degrees for nursing.
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If I was applying to become a nurse today, I wouldn't get a look in.......my education would not have been considered good enough.
My experience of the university trained nurses was that they didn't really want to do the 'personal care' aspect of the job...they wanted to do the technical stuff......the stuff that provides no comfort to the patient.
They believed(or at least it seemed that way) that the personal care aspects were the domain of the Nursing Auxiliaries.
It was difficult to get through to them that the personal care aspects were the most rewarding, because they gave comfort to the patient....and it was at these times that patients were most likely to tell you their worst fears and anxieties......in the privacy of a bathroom with the bath taps running, there is no chance of being overheard by other patients.
Ok, I may be being unkind to
some university trained nurses...but in the main I think the sandwich course style training was better at equipping you to be an effective Staff Nurse.