Would you have an Apprentice Mechanic Fix your Car?
I feel bad about the situation that the student nurses are in. They shouldn’t be working in those kinds of conditions. They’re students for goodness sake so I can understand the claim of Nicola Chambers who was quoted in Nick Triggle’s article as saying “I felt vulnerable and scared”.
Having said that however, as a patient I feel even more vulnerable and scared that I may experience a health problem and instead of being attended by a trained professional, I will be faced with an over worked and over tired student who isn’t capable of helping! It’s simply not good enough. Why is it happening? If you take your car to the garage you expect a qualified mechanic to fix it – with perhaps an apprentice looking on. You don’t usually go to the hairdresser and have a trainee cut your hair. So why is it thought acceptable by anyone that when we are at our most vulnerable and need medical help, the person that is deemed best to assess our medical condition is an inexperienced exhausted trainee nurse?
There are two sides to this issue, but both sides need the same outcome – a reality based assessment followed by an improvement of the nursing training programme!
On a positive note.Chris has re-designed the IPL skin treatment part