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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

This is also the issue with them suddenly "temporarily registering" final year student nurses as full nurses... there seems to be this idea that as they're "nearly finished" they must be competent. But at the end of the final year of nursing training, there is a long final placement, and on that placement, they're assessed for their competency to be entering the profession. That hasn't happened yet for current final year students.

I don't think they realise how many fail that placement and have to repeat, and are thus not competent to be practicing as registered nurses without supervision. Scary ****.

Even the ones who do eventually pass, often have areas of incompetency picked up early in that last placement and the whole point of the placement is that they work on those areas to achieve competency.

Unless the NHS want a raft of law suits, they will be supervised and will act as support to existing staff to cover breaks etc

People appear to be mixing up the NHS volunteers who are being asked to help out with the 1.5 who will be shielded and nursing staff