What's the difference between nursing grades?

madwife2002, BSN, RN · May 11, 2005

I´m a male nurse student from sweden.... I have a question about nurse grades...
Whats the difference between: Staff nurse grade (D and E), Sister/charge nurse grade (F) and Senior sister/charge sister grade(G and H). We are trying to analyse this article and we have no idea what so ever!!
Sincerely Skúli and Mattias
Please help us!

Hi

I will try to explain what happens on a ward.

D grade nurses are or tend to be newly qualified nurses or nurses with limited experience in the area they are working.

E grade nurses are experienced nurses and have a great deal of responsibility and often take charge of the shift. The majority of nurses tend to be in this bracket.

F grade nurse are more senior nurses with a more senior role in the running of the ward. They have certain responsibilities involved with the management process plus they are suppose to be 'experts'. They are team leaders and support their ward manager

G grades are the ward or line managers have 24 hour accountability for the ward, staff ect

But before you understand this it has all recently changed and nurses are now in pay bands which confuses everything.

so D & E gradesare in pay band 5

F's are in pay band 6

G's are in pay band 7

Please dont ask me to explain yet i am just gett ing to grips with ' Agenda for Change'

hope this helps :)

Silverdragon102, BSN · May 11, 2005

I´m a male nurse student from sweden.... I have a question about nurse grades...
Whats the difference between: Staff nurse grade (D and E), Sister/charge nurse grade (F) and Senior sister/charge sister grade(G and H). We are trying to analyse this article and we have no idea what so ever!!
Sincerely Skúli and Mattias
Please help us!

Grading in at the moment under a lot of change with the Agenda for Change. this can be looked at here http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/HumanResourcesAndTraining/ModernisingPay/AgendaForChange/fs/en

staff nurses are RN

sister/charge nurse is usually someone (RN) with experience who has been nursing for a while, gained extra qualifications and manages the ward

Senior sister/charge nurse is someone (RN)who has overall responsibility for the whole ward.

hope this clears it up a bit for you