Yep, they _are_ serious
They are trying to do the same here with prescribing rights.
There is one small thing that nurses get no teaching on; pathophysiology.
Politicians think it is just a small gap in their holistic barefoot-doctor
role.
Welcome to the future.
Jon
Dr Jon Wilcox
General Medicine, Paediatrics and Obstetrics,
Glenfield Medical Centre,
452 Glenfield Road,
Auckland 1310, New Zealand
Phone or Fax +649-444-7656
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-----Original Message-----
From: Katie Law <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, 9 September 1998 05:40
Subject: Super Nurses
>
>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)
>--
>Katie
>
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