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Diana, I can only agree. I have been banging on about this for a long time. Nursing is so very different to how it was, and not in a good way. One of my staff who is currently untrained but an absolute diamond with pitch-perfect attitude, energy and enthusiasm, practical skills and common sense, recently back from Iraq where she served succesfully in the Army in HealthCare has been turned down for her nurse training because, although her exam results are respectable there were more people with straight As and it is a degree course. It is madness - she is exactly what nursing needs, and I can guarantee that some of those with straight As will be rubbish.
The standards of care are almost laughably low in too many areas, and those tasked with maintaining the standards, including CQC, are themselves corrupt and lazy. Too much paper, too little sense and heart.