NHS “fare affidamento sui migranti” mentre il governo taglia la formazione infermieristica britannica

We don’t need to rely migrants. This government hates our country for some reason.

I remember my ex wife, sister in law and good friend all getting paid £6k a year to get nursing diplomas at 18. Then that got stopped for some reason. Seemed like a good program.

I think we need to ask why nursing needs to be a degree level job?

It’s because more and more is being asked of nurses to cover for the lack of doctors but there isn’t the equivalence of pay for the additional responsibility. For instance, take nurses prescribing drugs. If something goes wrong, they are fucked. The NHS won’t back them and they lose their PIN number. Same could be said for doctors but the pay is much higher -risk/reward.

When you force nurses into having degrees, with that comes debt. It means that often, nursing graduates come into the profession with the sole intention of getting into management as quickly as possible. We therefore end up with a situation whereby graduates don’t want to do the actual work of nursing, but want to get to the office or be a clipboard warrior and when they find that this isn’t possible, they leave the profession or we end up with the situation in the NHS we have today – too many chiefs and not enough frontline warriors. The levels of management in nursing in the UK today is incredible and hence, the layers of cost.

We need to look at the whole thing in the round and ask ourselves, what is a nurse? It takes a special kind of person to be one – it’s a vocation and shouldn’t be degree level. Additional training on the job to deal with the ever complex and changing nature of care is one thing but that should be provided by the employer.

Moreover, we rely on migrant nurses because of a crisis in recruitment and retention. Little wonder why.

After all these years the telegraph has finally agreed that freezing funding amounts to a cut.