comebackseason13

I am a Canadian educated nurse, here to be a RN you must have a degree. The entry requirements to get onto nursing programs in Canada is fierce - a high school final year average (biology,chem, math and advanced english are a must) of 85% is standard. Some even more prestigious universities have a 90% grade average acceptance. A lot of the students going into these programs could easily have went onto a science based program and continued onto medical school because they were most likely the top 5% of their graduating class. These students have a unrealistic expectation of nursing, a lot of them actually believed that nurses don't do personal care AT ALL and they are far too educated to be doing such "lowly" work. Personally, I go exhausted just 2 year into my career post graduation. Bedside nursing is hard work, and part of me wanted to drop out of nursing during university and do something else but I had already invested so much money into it. I moved into a public health position which luckily I was able to secure. A lot of the students I went to university with were overachievers and thought they were far too intelligent to be providing personal care to strangers. Truth be told maybe I felt that way too sometimes. It is degrading when your patients treat you like crap, because this customer service attitude with nursing makes many patients feel they are entitled to 5 star hotel service. Many of the students I graduated with moved onto different roles in nursing -family health clinics, public health, masters degrees, cosmetic nursing, NPs, and even complete and total career changes (medical malpractice lawyers and MBAs).

1. he's not a doctor 2. maybe he is threatened because NPs basically do the same role as a PA 3. he is an idiot - also I don't care if it's 3am and you're not critical I'm going into your room and flashing a bright light in your face to see if you're alive. My career depends on it

It seems they are bringing the role back now since completely phasing enrolled nurses out.

Has anyone heard of this new role entering the UK? I was looking at job postings as saw that there were trainee associate nurse postings up. What will this role entail? Will it be similar to North American LPNs? Nursing Associate - a new support role for nursing | Health Education England It appears their education will be a 2 year foundation program, they can then complete 1 year of further university training to become RNs