I know there will be many academics, who think that having a degree will solve the problems of the world, but I fail to understand why all nurses need to have a degree.

Nurses need IMHO to be practical, loving and caring and understand what patients are going through. They also need to be able to deal with emergencies in the flash of a second. They also need to be able to roll their sleeves up and get on with the job. Mucking out springs to mind.

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.

What say yee.

No flaming or being offensive to anybody please. This is a very emeotional subject. Stick to nursing.