The BBC article, “Nursing to become graduate entry”, interested me about the new development for nurse education because I am a health professional, and I think this change would be good for the community health system.
In the report, the Nursing and Midwifery Council is improving new standards for nurse education in the UK which contain at least three years of training for new nurses from 2013 to gain a degree. The new standards will help new nurses to gain more experience as trainees. Health Minister for England pointed out that nurses are very important factor to give the high quality healthcare, and this move will serve decision-making skills for them. This development was not created to limit the nursing profession, but it can help new nurses’ skills including knowledge, analytical skill and experience to work. The Royal College of Nursing is worried that nurses are being “undue pressured” (“Nursing to become graduate entry”, 2009, Undue pressured, ¶ 2), and concern about meeting a target, but the organization response that this development will make patient care service better.
I agree with this idea because nurses are health professional who need special skills. It is necessary to gain the extra training to have a real practical work. Trainees will face with the real situation in the hospital by working with other health teams. Nurses have great roles in healthcare system like doctors. This career requires experience especially in particular fields such as pediatric nurse and ICU ward. While I was studying in the university, faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, I had a chance to obtain the work experience at hospitals, manufactories and drugstores. I can apply the knowledge to use at work which I cannot obtain from the university. Now, some universities expand the pharmacy course from five years to six years by adding one more year for training. It sounds very long to study, but it helps students to have more practice and improve clinical knowledge.
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References
Nursing to become graduate entry. (2009, November 12). BBC News. Retrieved November 12, 2009 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8355388.stm
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