common sense

Ok, that was a slight exaggeration, adding a bit of sensationalism, but the above point may come true in the future.

The NMC are currently running a review of pre-registration nursing education.

Questions include:

should nurses be prepared to diploma or degree level?

what proportion of a pre-registration programme should be spent learning in practice?

should shared learning be a requirement?

should there be generalist and/or branch programmes, and if so, what should the branches be?

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When I trained as a nurse, I recall the ongoing debate of the ‘theory/practice gap’. In the advent of the Health & Safety turbo-charged steamroller (recently convereted here to run on “Duty of Care” fuel), over the last 20 years or so, I would like to declare the “panic/common-sense gap” our new clear winner.I know I’m not the first to post on this topic, and surely am not the only one to have noticed or take issue with this. However, I am interested in the international perspective on this and will state from the outset, I’ve never seen in-patient healthcare quite so bad as I have where I am for being a Nanny State & Big Brother combined.

Health & Safety will hereafter be referred to as H&S (or UB, for “utter bollox”, depending on context and my mood).  Read the rest of this entry »