Is this the future?
Just found this headline on todays news:
<UNIONS GREET 'SUPER-NURSES' PLAN WITH CAUTION
Health unions have given a guarded welcome to proposals
announced by Tony Blair for new "consultant nurses" to raise the status
of their profession.
Dubbed 'super-nurses', they could earn more than their colleagues, and
may have their own clinics and lists of patients.
The Prime Minister also announced plans to create an extra 15,000 nurses
over the next three years, with 6,000 more training places.
At the Nurse of the Year awards in London, he called for more family-
friendly working conditions for nurses and an end to the notion that
they were just "the doctor's hand maiden".>
Presumably salaried nurses with patient lists will be cheaper than
doctors ??
Not meaning to be reactive - but what about the 8 years plus training to
get where I am - do they think nurses will be able to do this without
such training?
Are they serious?
(I am not denigrating nurses)
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Katie
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