To ask if you knew that in the UK anyone can call themselves a nurse?

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Anyone can use the title to offer professional advice and services even if they have no professional qualification, experience or have been struck off a professional register.
To protect the public, the title should be restricted to those who are registered with professional regulators such as Registered Nurses and Dental Nurses. This would be the same as titles such as paramedic, physiotherapist and hearing aid dispenser which are limited to those on the professional registers.

If you think, as I do, that this is wrong, please pop over to the Petitions Board, where @Arbella2 has a thread with more information and links to the petition.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/petitions_noticeboard/a4368136-protect-the-title-nurse-in-uk-law-petition-the-title-nurse-can-be-used-by-anyone-in-the-uk-petition-created-by-professor-alison-leary-rn?msgid=111544580#111544580

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[quote Arbella2]https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/587939[/quote]
Petition

[quote Arbella2]British Journal of Medicine (BMJ) article
The Healthcare Quality and Safety Conference October 2021
"A bedside care workforce with a greater proportion of professional nurses is associated with better outcomes for patients and nurses. Reducing skill mix by adding nursing associates and other categories of assistive personnel without professional nurse qualifications may contribute to preventable deaths, erode quality and safety of hospital care and contribute to hospital nurse shortages"
https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/26/7/559[/quote]
This

I'm a registered nurse, RNLD. Any position I've had and any I've seen advertised have always said "registered nurse with an active PIN". I've always had to give my NMC details or employers have checked the register. I pay my yearly fee and complete my revalidation every three years.

Surely even if people can call a nurse they can't actually practice as one without the registration? Same wit

Also Professor Leary's article. A quick and important read.
https://richmondgroupofcharities.org.uk/news