A question for Nurses/NHS workers?

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With the increasing training/workload/powers/responsibility of nurses, especially now that nurse prescribing is becoming more and more acceptable and starting to encompass the entire BNF, is there an argument that Nurses are becoming doctors on the cheap? Or is there another argument that in 10 years or so, when the new polyclinics and reccomendations of the Darzi report come into play, are junior doctors going to become obsolete as nurses effectively take over their role?

Let me just state that as a student nurse, I welcome the fact that nurses are now becoming better trained/qualified, but I just resent that we are not perhaps getting the recognition or pay that this level of training deserves, when we compare ourselves to Doctors.
First of all Kiku, stop showing your lack of intelligence, you are completely missing the point of my question.
toietmoi, that is part of my point mate, after becoming qualified general nurses, nurses are getting extra qualifications to become nurse prescribers, perform minor surgeries, become emergency nurse practitioners, etc. Experienced nurses are becoming AS qualified as GP's, but without the pay or recognition. The public perception of us does not recognise this as your answer shows.


I am asking if WE ARE MAKING DOCTORS REDUNDANT BY TAKING OVER MORE AND MORE OF THEIR ROLES WITHIN A HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY SETTING?
 
well you will no by the agenda for change pay tables you get more than enough,and its the ancillary staff on band 2 that are getting screwed

plus its the n/a's on the wards that do everything
 
As an ex NHS employee and soon-to-be ex nurse, I totally agree that nurses are not paid anything like they should be, for the responsibilities and accountability they have now.

I think it is disgraceful that nurses get paid such a paltry amount. I never used to care that I had a relatively low income, however that was at a time when you could do the job without spending over 50% of the time writing about it - purely to cover your back!

I think this all stemmed from the time the NHS needed to cut back (and rightly so) on the amount of on call time that doctors did, in addition to their working week.
 
It is cheaper to employ nurses and give them more doctor's responsibilities to do things within their competence. But i don't think, we the public, will be happy for someone who is not qualified up to a certain standards to do more complex jobs taking life and death decisions, just to save money. Don't you think?
Good luck
 
You have entered into a contract to do a job of work.

If you don't like the terms and conditions, then my suggestion is that you do something else.

That is the job, and you are fully aware of your responsibilities should you enter into that profession as your question shows.
So you can't moan if you don't want to do it!

Can you!
 
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