From the very first post on here:


>>>I would agree that maybe senior ward nurses should have a degree, but the best nurses IMHO are the doers who don't have degrees. They have the basic skills to deal with people who are ill.

We are in danger of losing soem very fine nurses, who are not academics.<<<<

Exactly!


We are in danger of losing very many wonderful people, from all professions, because they do not want to bow and cowtow to those who demand that all should have degrees.

An Academic, Scientific World does not, and should not, take preference over a Healing, Spiritual one, but we are in grave danger of losing the plot completely, in my ever so humble, seemingly thick opinion.

When I am in trouble, I don't want some smart Uni kid coming at me with a syringe and a book. I want a Nurse who knows what she's doing, and has the empathy and compassion to know exactly how I am feeling inside. You cannot teach empathy and compassion from a book. It is either there, or it isn't.

Our Nurses have always been extraordinarily well trained and to suggest otherwise is sacrilege.

Degrees are a Business these days, and little else.