So you need a degree to be a nurse now? I thought it was all about bedside manner ...
Nursing has changed since the Carry on stereotypes. It is possible to take a diploma or degree course to qualify as a nurse, but a degree will become the minimum requirement from 2013. It is expected that in future, more nurses will be working in community settings, promoting public health, and treating people outside hospital. The Department of Health expects graduates “to be able to deal more readily with increasingly complex care in an increasingly challenging health and social care system”.
So what tasks do nurses perform now?
More than you’d imagine. They include roles that previously would only have been done by surgeons or doctors,