Richard Dick
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Nurses requiring degrees as well as the Blair government's obsession with 50% of school leavers getting degrees was a huge fuck up. It resulted in nurses that think they're above wiping arses, a huge shortage of skilled trades (justifying immigration) and a surplus of retards that graduated second class in media studies that think they're entitled to get a cushy office job starting at 40k because they "went to uni".The Europe issue affected us hugely in the NHS as they had to quota non EU immigration more, we have always had a issue if not enough drs and nurses to patients we used to get over this with non EU immigration from countries where the ambition was to become a Dr or a nurse. The nurses thing is also a huge fuck up by our governments as for some reason it was deemed necessary to make it a degree only requirement combined with degrees costing money and burderies being dropped. When my granny and aunt became nurses they trained in hospitals paid low wages but lived on site, could afford to live, now a nurse is having to self fund training, pay for housing and start a low paid career saddled with debt. Make it easier and cheaper for nurses to be nurses, not all need the level of knowledge they do now, what they gain now in bio science understanding is at the loss of bed side manner and care which is what they were taught in the old days. Making it a degree just makes it harder for some non academic nurses to enter and costs loads. A plumber does not need to understand the full chemical structure of water to fit a pipe
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