NURSING AND EDUCATION PLATFORM

Re NMC plan to check nurses every 3 years.

This is "silencing whistleblowing by the backdoor".

How will this apply to those who work as lecturers or professors etc ie not directly patient care?

Peers may dislike nurses who raise issues thus providing negative reports eg bias against unpopular nurses. Indeed there is evidence of unfairly reported nurses to the NMC anyway.

Also it seems, nurses have to agree (including Unions in some cases), with business objectives of the company etc.

Criteria also are essential ie compassion or clinical skills??

Need also address nurse training and overseas in any case. There should be no need to do this with adequate training, staff support and mangement etc. 

Is this not shoving the responsibility onto the employer? Nurses will be even more afraid to raise issues. Worse problems will be in private sector.- more overseas staff etc.

Whatever happened to the CPD checking? Not many portfolios were asked for , according to references.

Nurses do need regular, updates with the latest information regarding their speciality. 

 Carol Dimon