Fast track nursing degree

[Wingingthis]

Do you think the government would consider this if the pandemic gets worse or continues for a long time? Is it even possible?

@Siw2020
Radiographers don’t just report ‘2D X-rays’ my partner is a radiographer and there are many opportunities for radiographers to report plain film, MRI and CT. They are slowly taking the role of a radiologist.

Thanks for your post. Of course I was referring to radiographers!

I wish people would realise nurses aren't just the dog bodies doing what they doctor says anymore. We are professionals in our own rights!! I work with GPs who respect our knowledge and skills luckily. Also I have been asked to contact specialist nurses by GPs as in their own words "they know about it than me". I started my nursing degree 18 years ago so this is not new concept. I think it could be possibly fast tracked to a 2 year programme but would need to be very much clinical based.

You specify radiologists separately as though they are not doctors...

@Siw2020 I did of course mean, radiographers! As you're obviously so clever, you should have realised that.

I think it’s difficult at the moment to give student nurses a well rounded experience. I think students are going to struggle to get their clinical hours in without trying to reduce the length of the course. I do have a vague recollection of there being a fast track course for graduates for a while (or maybe I dreamt it).

@AlaskaThunderfuckHiiiiiiiii

Nursing associates can still only do so much though?

They can do pretty much anything except, I think, administer chemo and blood products?

Think of the old SEN and RGN.

They won’t be able to administer syringe driver products, or any controlled drugs either. I’ve just had a look at the role and what they would be able to do and I pretty much do all of that as a band 2 in the community 🧐 obviously I know Scotland and England are different though