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Children’s nursing: is it time to rethink field-specific training?
A return to generic training can broaden nurses’ experience and prepare students for child and adult clinical situations, argue Edward Purssell and Rohit Sagoo
A return to generic training can broaden nurses’ experience and prepare students for child and adult clinical situations, argue Edward Purssell and Rohit Sagoo
Nurse training in the UK is somewhat unusual compared with countries such as Canada, Ireland and New Zealand in that it is field-specific from the first day.
But it has not always been that way. Before the phased introduction of the changes to nursing, midwifery and health visiting training in Project 2000 in 1989, most adult and children’s nurses qualified as general nurses before
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