B.ED PANS AT THE READY

ABOVE: What sets nurses apart is their ability to care

WHY can’t the Government leave the bloody nurses alone?

Have you heard the latest?

Starting next year, anyone wanting to care for the sick will have to have a degree.

Un-be-f**king-lievable. You don’t need a degree to stem the flow of blood from a young man’s head as he verbally
abuses you.

Nor do you need one when the old dear in the end bed has made a mistake in her nightie and you have to clean it
up.

When a kid fighting a losing battle with cancer just won’t stop crying silently all through the night, a piece of paper saying “you passed” will not help.

Most of us have at some point been cared for by one of the 400,000 nurses who make up the bulk of our country’s
health workforce.

Be it during childbirth, for operations or trips to A&E that night you decided to teach the door staff at Sparkles nightclub a lesson.

And so you know as well as I do that what sets nurses apart from the rest of us is not their ability to pass exams but their ability to care.

In a world where everyone is out for himself and balls to the next man, these women – and a few men – are absolute saints in my book.

Certainly, they need to be taught about drugs and splints and stuff like that. But the ability to care about often repulsive, complete strangers is a quality that cannot be learned.

I recall going to hospital as a teenager for a minor operation which involved breaking and resetting a bone.

I was scared stiff but such was the kindness of the three ladies in paper hats looking after me that I left the next day vowing that I loved them all.

I swore I would return with flowers and chocolates. I never did, because I am not a good person. Unlike nurses.

We mustn’t scare these good people away from doing a job so vital to our entire country by insisting they spend four expensive years at university.

There is no money in nursing and if there’s one group of people who deserve a debt-free life it is the nurses.

Plus when I or my loved one are lying on a hospital bed, I want a cold doctor hitting me with facts but the counter-balance of a warm nurse stroking my brow.

And let’s face it – no one with a degree would be prepared to give me a bed bath.

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Posted: Sun 15 November 2009, 12:25:58 , by Dani_b Re: B.Ed pans at the ready “ the degree doesnt make people better nurses/midwives. they are only getting rid of the diploma for the money, as the bursery for the degree is means tested, which means student will get a lot less money to live on. a lot of students wont beable to afford to live on the little money they will get so it will put lots of people off from applying. i am in the process of applying to do midwifery but know it will be hard as i will now have to do extra work in the 3 years and will have little money to live on ” ( Inappropriate Comment? Report This! )

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