Tag Archives: education

No sympathy?

July 12, 2008 – 8:28 am

As regards nurses, this scenario is of course too silly for words. A house, car and family? What nurse at the start of her/his career expects to have a house, a car and a family to support? Nurses at this stage have none of that and frequently are helped out financially by parents or better-paid [...]

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I am the Walrus

May 29, 2008 – 8:43 am

Dr Crippen is concerned about dumbing down at Cambridge University. I hate to think what he is going to make of this.
English students at Cambridge University have been asked to analyse lyrics by singer Amy Winehouse in a final-year exam.
Of course in my day at too posh to wash school for young student [...]

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School bullies

May 25, 2008 – 11:26 pm

Children with asperger syndrome often get horrendously bullied at school. Due to their inability to read social cues they tend to come across as a bit weird, and often say embarrassing remarks or make social blunders. As a result, the school bullies home in on them like lions circling an injured wildebeest.
Which makes this story [...]

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what else do i need?

May 7, 2008 – 7:00 pm

(Guest post by Poppylover)
Hi, Ive finished NVQ level 2 Health and Social Care..and have almost finished NVQ level 3 Health and Social Care.. I’m just wondering what else i need to be able to apply for Adult Nursing? I’m really confused, don’t no if i need to do an Access course or Key Skills? Let [...]

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Bloody students 2

April 11, 2008 – 8:30 am

Previously, I’ve cautioned zarathustra against picking fights with Dr Crippen. Inter-blog squabbles are a singularly pointless waste of time in general, and trying to reason with Dr C is especially futile. But, I’d just like to pick up on a point the good doctor made: -
Ask yourself this. Why do young (and a [...]

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Bloody students

April 9, 2008 – 8:28 pm

Student nurses are dropping out of their courses at a great rate. In some places, the attrition rate is as high as 56%. So the inevitable question is - why?
Dr Crippen reckons he’s got the answer, in the form of an email from a “soon to be ex-student”, allegedly, complaining about the nature [...]

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In defence of healthcare assistants

February 29, 2008 – 7:26 pm

Oh dear, a silly set of comments by a silly man has unleashed a torrent of bile aimed at healthcare assistants.
This work is now done by assorted auxiliaries who have been taken away from the routine cleaning duties they used to perform so that they can act up to do jobs for which they are [...]

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Futurama

February 27, 2008 – 7:47 am

A few weeks ago, I met up with a student - we’ll call her Mavis - for a tutorial prior to an exam. Nothing unusual in that, pretty standard university lecturer activity. Except Mavis was a third year, who should have qualified last September but was still resitting an exam she had already [...]

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A matter of degree

February 20, 2008 – 7:34 pm

Student nurse The Oracle has pointed out some charming comments from the Daily Mail website.
Nurses in this country are the most rude, militant, chip of the shoulder bunch of wingers you could ever need. The problem is now they are required to do a useless degree instead of learning their primary function which is to [...]

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THE NMC TO SCRAP MENTAL HEALTH NURSE TRAINING!!!

January 30, 2008 – 4:48 pm

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 [...]

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Nurse education - theory and practice

September 20, 2007 – 9:18 pm

Since Beakie’s post about nurse education seems to have sparked a lively debate, I think I’ll add my own thoughts on this subject.
I’ve just taken up my first staff nurse post, having passed the nursing degree with first class honours. From the tone of some posts on the blogosphere, this must mean that I must [...]

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Another rant about nurse education

September 18, 2007 – 4:29 pm

OK, so looking at the Britmeds blog summary on Dr Rant, there were a couple of posts from nursing blogs, one of which - it was purported - was about the parlous state of nurse education. It was, in fact, a moan about some tedious training provided by a medical devices company about how [...]

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Is university education wasted on nurses?

August 18, 2007 – 4:54 pm

A previous post seems to have sparked a lively debate as to whether nurses should study for a nursing degree. Much of this relates to what might be termed the Daily Mail/Dr Crippen Stance on Nurse Education.
This stance tends to go something like this:

Nurses don’t need a university degree. Most of nursing is practical stuff [...]

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