Visited my hairdresser early in the morning of a public holiday. On the radio there was an official from the nursing council - explaining why graduates from some nursing courses were not recognized and not allowed to register.
After half an hour of torture (ironically, by the man who was famous for his lack of university degree), this guest of the program admitted - unwillingly - that there is a plan to accept only those nursing courses that give a bachelor degree.
My immediate reaction was we do not need university graduates to feed or change napkins for our patients.
On a second thought, I was wrong - our nursing colleagues have secretly upgraded themselves over the years. Those messy jobs are now delegated to "health care assistants" (alas, hospital amah in sugar coating). Nurses are now responsible for doing dressing, dispensing drugs, checking blood products - and documenting records. Oh, I'd better say no more.
PS. The most difficult thing to train a nurse, I am sure, is how to read doctors' handwriting.
3 comments:
It is not a question whether we need a bachelor degree to decipher the hopeless handwriting.
What we need is a university degree so that we are allowed to write in a way nobody can read.
of course both of you are able to take the moral highground!
My medical friends in sydney have experienced hospitals where the nursing staff is so powerful that the interns do the toilet work....
I guess we all could benefit from a bit of MBA education!
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