Prompted post #6: Nurse Training

In an article I found online, a Professor named Mark Radcliffe, is making an argument about training nurses. He is talking about how he is a teacher that is trying to prepare nursing students to be reliable in the workplace, but he is saying that hes not sure how much good he is actually doing. He believes that the way that nurses are trained should be changed. He wants the training to move away from writing essays and taking exams, to teaching people how to implement nursing practices in live situations. He believes that it would be more beneficial to teach students in a hands on way.

He is also saying that their is a problem with the content that goes into training. He agrees that nurses should get degrees  but he disagrees with the track they have to take. He is says that the more money we loose the louder the arguments about nurse training gets. People that want to be nurses need to have the proper training because they are dealing with someones life, but students are heading away from it because they simply cannot afford to take all the classes they need. Students are stopping early, before they finish all the training and that is a problem because hospitals are starting to be understaffed. Mark does not provide any ways he thinks this problem will be fixed but he is bringing it to light because he is a nursing professor and he disagrees with the way things are going. He does not think that a nursing student should start to learn how to use a drip 5 months before he is certified, he should learn it much sooner than that.

This article scares me a little bit because I am going to be going down that road soon and i do not want to have to stop because I cannot afford to go to school. But I also agree with Mark because nurses do need the proper training in order to be help responsible for other peoples lives, There is no way around the training, its just a part of the job, I do however think it sucks for those people that could not finish their training and are left with almost knowing what they need for their job, but still falling short. I overall agree with Mark and think that the training that nurses undergo should be revised.