What are grades?

letina · Feb 27, 2005

You will probably find that these grades you refer to will soon become extinct as we now have something called 'Agenda for Change'. Basically, all nursing posts will now be 'banded' - the higher the band number, the more senior/advanced the job is, requiring enhanced skills, therefore the higher the salary is. The grades you speak of were as follows :

A & B grades - health care assistants (or techs)

C grade - equivalent to your LPN/LVN

D grade - newly qualified RN

E & F grades - RN with enhanced experiences

G grade - ward manager

H & I grades - usually Nurse Specialists/Nurse Practitioners

Agenda for change is very high profile in the UK at the moment and my explanation above is perhaps over-simplistic, but it's the best I could do at this late hour :yawn:

Tina

scots_nurse_wannabe · Feb 27, 2005

Thanks so much! I greatly appreciate your explanations.

andreamae · Feb 27, 2005

Nurse specialist?

Silverdragon102, BSN · Feb 27, 2005

Nurse specialist?

Nurses who specialise in a certain condition/disease and who gain further education/courses/experience in that speciality. ie Respiratory nurse who has done a diploma/degree/masters in respiratory care covering all respiratory management. If I wasn't planning on leaving for the US I would be going this route and had started the process by doing a spirometry/lung function course. The course do have to be a recognised course from a recognised source.

madwife2002, BSN, RN · Feb 28, 2005

Hi,

Grades are shortly to be replaced by pay bands just to confuse you even more

For RN's the pay band starts at 5 and goes up depending on job title and experience.

Nobody really knows for sure how it is going to work but we asured that our pay will not be affected adversly.

If you go to http://www.dh.gov.uk there is information there.