When I left school many years ago student nurses got paid with board and lodging included. Since nursing became a degree course things have changed enormously, I'm not sure that it's always for the better especially if newly qualified nurses have to start replaying their student loans straight away.
My mum trained as an SRN and midwife in the late 40s. Always said the amount of studying and knowledge needed to get a good pass (she came top) was degree level and also knew that she and many of her colleagues were smarter than a lot of the junior doctors but hadn't had the opportunity to stay on and do A levels or university. She went on, later, to her MSc and a PhD so knew of what she spoke. Also a dreadful snob about the SCN qualification but it's needed too because nursing involves such a wide range of skills.
These days there is some much more technology and science in both nursing that the ones who go onto specialise deserve the recognition of a degree level initial qualification but we also need the ones who do the more mundane nursing - medication, dressings, general post-op care, daily hygiene and feeding etc
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I trained in 1970, nursing was never about the pay in those days, you did it because you wanted to. Often (on my night shift) the agency staff who were getting ridiculous amount per hour, would go to sleep!! I had a pay rise every year, retired 5 years ago, and one of my friends, old ward sister told me recently how much I would be getting now, far more than I earned then
The house over the road have been having a weekend-long baby shower. Guests arriving staggered so they don't have a big gathering but all going in for half an hour or so.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Our neighbours seem to be meeting family members in the garden in small numbers. I've Not noticed more than two at at time. But then I'm Not a curtain twitcher. Not legal but the numbers locally are less than 3 per 100,000. I can't bring myself to become aeriated
I've mentioned before about how p'd off we are that neighbours have family members around almost every day. My wife had the chance to score a bullseye yesterday on the subject. She hadn't been down the garden for months due to the weather, and has hardly been out of the house as she works from home.
The household next door is made up of 3 generations with the grandparents living in a lodge in the garden. My wife was in the garden and the daughter struck up conversation with her, asking how she was. My wife answered honestly saying she was fed up with not being able to see her sister since Christmas and couldn't wait for the lockdown to be eased. At that precise moment the 2 daughters who don't live there walked out of the lodge and the daughter who does live there didn't know what to say or where to look. Point made to them, not that it will make any difference to them.
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Since nursing became a degree course things have changed enormously, I'm not sure that it's always for the better especially if newly qualified nurses have to start replaying their student loans straight away.
These days there is some much more technology and science in both nursing that the ones who go onto specialise deserve the recognition of a degree level initial qualification but we also need the ones who do the more mundane nursing - medication, dressings, general post-op care, daily hygiene and feeding etc