So nursing is to change to being an all-degree profession from 2013. Not a huge surprise. Mental Nurse is having a proper discussion on it if you want to know more, because you know what?
I don't care.
Frankly, I don't give a damn what they make us do to be nurses. To be brutally honest, I'm hoping it will put some of the thicker applicants off doing it; you can be as caring as you want, but if you can't scrape a third in a degree with three attempts at every essay then there's no fucking way you should have people's lives in your hands.
Of course, the argument is that being able to write an assignment doesn't make you a good nurse. This is true. Assignments only show how well you can write assignments. However, if you still can't pass one on the third attempt after receiving feedback and support from tutors - and often just being told straight up what the hell to write - then that to me shows an inability to learn from your mistakes, to listen to and act appropriately on new information, and just an incredible density that means you should not be allowed to dish out potentially lethal drugs to sick people.
So I don't care. What I do care about, a great deal, is money. Of course.
I'm currently filling in a 26 page form begging the government to give me a pittance towards my living expenses, in order that I might qualify as a MH nurse and thus be graciously allowed to spend the next forty fucking years caring for people whom a fair percentage of society don't actually give a shit about.
You want to make sure people still go into nursing when it's all degree? Make sure they don't have to default on their mortgage to do it.
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What is this form of which you speak - I may be needing it too.
What annoys me is that nursing students in Scotland and Wales still get the full bursary if they do the degree. I worked out once that I get 'paid' about £1.50 and hour.
And yes nursing students - I wouldn't trust some of them to dish out kiddy aspirin. Some of the stuff they come out with - I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry...
Take care,
Differently
It is this form: http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/Documents/Students/PSM1%28New_Deg%29_0910_v1.3.pdf
for the means tested bursary. It sucks. Just had to dig through 7 years of payslips to find the ones that prove I've been supporting myself independently for 3 years before the start of the course. Am scared to show Mr Door the bits he needs to fill in...
I'm glad they're changing it. I think they should make the entry requirements higher as well. Might weed out some of the idiots who just drift into it and have no bloody idea of what exactly they're doing there.
Drug calculations? Nah I'll just wing it, what could go wrong?
-Sorry to rant so much the first time I ever comment on your blog, just pretty annoyed about some fellow students. I'm sure you understand :)
TD
nurseconverse - I think a rant is perectly acceptable for your first comment, it pretty much captures the essence of the blog :o) Understand completely, am fighting the urge to scream at my colleagues on a daily basis...
I am still going in for the Diploma oh exciting I'll be officially the last batch next September most uni’s are taking in the last batch next September! Either way I intend to still switch to a degree in the 3rd year and graduate with a degree, I’m only doing the Diploma for the bursary which is why most people do it... At the end of the day I’m going into nursing for the vocation not for the actually paper and fancy hat and picture at the end! The good wage would be nice as well... if the NHS don’t want to pay be a good wage, I might sod off to Saudi Arabia, tax free I heard they pay £70,000 a year!
... just to add I look around at some of the students in my Access Course now who want to go to uni next year and I think to myself ‘good god they have no idea’ they can’t even write a personal statement or put together a basic assignment in psychology, one girl in particular springs to mind I have no idea how she would manage at university... I have tried to offer her some advice but it seems to fall on deaf ears but she’s young at 19 so perhaps it’s early days, I guess at 32 I have more life experience!
I just want to say THANK YOU.
Thank you for getting broke for us.
Thank you for giving a toss about mentalists.
Alison - I know, have been eyeing up some of the salaries overseas...not sure I have the guts to start up somewhere else though :o) And, despite my complaints, I still like Britain. Might just move somewhere a bit more picturesque...fewer cooling towers would be nice...
sanabituranima - Thank you for your thanks :o) Sometimes I wonder if I should go into another career, something a bit less thankless...that's not why anyone goes into mh nursing, but it can get a bit soul destroying with all the negativity that gets aimed at you...
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