sckirrilus

i think it should be the individuals choice personally i prefer the idea of doing the diploma to attain a job then tailoring a degree to what interested you most or the area you preferred to work in. when you start out you dont really know where you are going to end up working i thought i would be a surgical nurse and didnt really like medical when i was training mainly because most of my placement experience was surgical but when i qualified i went into medical and remained there and love it, i do agree as well that degree nursing courses would mean a lot of people who want to nurse wouldnt be able or would have the harder academic slog to get onto the course which would be very off putting and i also think that degree nurses dont make better nurses even with the theory they still dont have the nonce to do the job. if the government is trying to bring this initiative in that we are all to be degree nurses by 2010 does that also mean nurses already on the floor having to go and do the degree course, if thats the case how can an industry already short staffed afford to have nurses off the floor to go and do the degree and still fit in everything else they juggle.

why not phone the human resources department and ask them?

hi there i work in a scottish hospital and we too are having problems with the assimilation process most of us got our banding letters in december or january of this year all d and e grades were banded 5 f grades were banded 6 and the g grades still arent banded our back pay is coming in dribs and drabs since the letters were sent out they have paid a kind of bridging sum in our wages each month to make up for the short fall which seems ludicrous to me as we are banded on our wage slips but still havent seen the financial effect in our wages those that have received their lump sum back pay have ranged so far up and down the scale that no one has made sense of the formula used for working out what each person is due some band d workers have got average £1200 mid band e have got £200-£400 and the top e's have £1200-3600 someone in our trust even ended up owing a ridiculous sum like £1 apparently. i still havent had my back pay but hope to get it this month i am mid e so im not holding out much hope for any big money and then there is the argument in our new area that they are banded wrong because they are ccu and critical care should be band 6 but then theatres and a+e are also band 5.