'Celebrate the pioneering move to raise education status'

摘要

Praising Baroness McFarlane's intentions, Illora Finlay, professor of palliative medicine at Cardiff University, nevertheless suggested in turning nursing into a graduate-entry profession "basic caring got overlooked". She argues in a recent article in The Times that students should instead be learning alongside experienced nurses in real clinical situations. It seems Baroness Finlay - and perhaps others serving the health sector - may be unaware this is already a key component of graduate programmes. All nurse educators are experienced nurses in their own right and half of all student nurses' education programmes continue to be in clinical environments. Simulation and skills laboratory-sessions merely help students learn and perfect skills safely, before practising them for real, under supervision of clinical staff.