I have just listened to the link that Ruth provided. It is dissapointing to see that 50% of nursing staff have considered leaving. This certainly would afftect our already depleted nursing stock! The difficulties being that expereienced staff leaving can not all be replaced by new graduates and we have plenty of them. We still need to be able to staff our wards/clincis etc with a mix of new and experienced staff. What would happen to the already stretched standard of care if we lost 50% of our experienced staff.
Having just spent 2 and a bit weeks in Waikato Hospital I marvelled at how well the nurses worked on my first afternoon there my nurse was looking after 7 patients!
cheers
Shelagh
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
ethics in education
While most of you work with patients/clients my client base are our student nurses.
Prior to working for EIT I worked for another academic institution. They had an open entry type of enrollment - we (my colleagues and I) saw it as "bums on seats" policy. They did not interview potential students for the nursing degree it was basically first in first served. Sounds pretty cool but it was really a bit of a nightmare. We had students that could barely string words together to make a sentences trying to complete a degree level course. We had many discussions about whether it was morally right to accept people on to a course if they didn't have the academic ability to complete the course. We were taking huge amounts of money off students for fees and then setting them up to fail.
But the powers that be said "everyone has a right to have a go" - yes I do agree with that but they should also be directed in to the right level of study. One example is a student that was failing all papers she was eventually counselled off the course the next time we saw her was a couple of years later and she was graduating with level one numeracy and literacy!!
Prior to working for EIT I worked for another academic institution. They had an open entry type of enrollment - we (my colleagues and I) saw it as "bums on seats" policy. They did not interview potential students for the nursing degree it was basically first in first served. Sounds pretty cool but it was really a bit of a nightmare. We had students that could barely string words together to make a sentences trying to complete a degree level course. We had many discussions about whether it was morally right to accept people on to a course if they didn't have the academic ability to complete the course. We were taking huge amounts of money off students for fees and then setting them up to fail.
But the powers that be said "everyone has a right to have a go" - yes I do agree with that but they should also be directed in to the right level of study. One example is a student that was failing all papers she was eventually counselled off the course the next time we saw her was a couple of years later and she was graduating with level one numeracy and literacy!!
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