What's the difference between nursing grades?

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 :)