Working in A&E requires specialist skills that can lead all the way to the topNursing in the acute sector – whether A&E,theatre or the ward – has changed “nearly beyond recognition in the past few decades, says Mandie Sunderland, or chief nurse at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS trust. “The fundamental care skills are the same,but the context in which we work has changed radically.”This has led to increasing specialisation as well as advanced nursing roles. “We have nurses doing jobs that middle-ranking doctors would have done historically and they are doing them brilliantly,” says Sunderland. The clinical career pathway now stretches all the way to nurse consultant.
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Source: theguardian.com