Sunday, May 29, 2005

What, nurses training doctors?

Senior nurses could have their unofficial role in junior doctor training formalised under NHS modernisation plans.

The proposals, by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) researchers, are likely to prove controversial even among nurses, but NES research and training officer Jo Vallis, education development officer Ann Hesketh and Scotland's south east regional dean Stuart Macpherson suggest existing inadequacies in pre-registration house officer (PRHO) training need to be tackled using imaginative solutions.

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