Healthcare Assistants appear would welcome the return of the ward based trained State Enrolled Nurse for their career progression and patient safety and talk is of returning to that mode of training now.
- Healthcare assistants carry out nursing tasks... traditionally performed by registered nurses 21 September 2010 ...
HCA (CARER) have taken the role of the ... discontinued ... SEN (State Enrolled Nurse)... ward based care and ... direct patient care and ...more specialised care as in dressings, cannula, TPR. Medicines.
...The best thing about being a CARER (HCA) is when a patient recognises that you generally care and come and say thank you. That is a feeling that is second to none because you feel that you are worthwhile and somebody can see your passion, hard work and your love for your job. ...
There should be more training opportunities for those of us who want to progress and become something more and further our career in Nursing.
... How short-sighted to get rid of the Diploma. There is now a huge gap between HCA (CARERS) and degree nurses with no alterntive pathway to progression. ...
So, as I see it reinstating the SEN role has unofficially taken place alrerady.
HCAs catheterising, doing venopuncture / canulating / wound care is the SEN role, as well as the hands on stuff. ...
I am a HCA (CARER) trained to NVQ level 3 and have been put off becoming a nurse as they do very little hands on. ...
Responsible department: Department of Health
To create law to immediately cease nursing university degrees and convert these courses to doctors degrees.
Such qualified nurses to be redeployed into the private sector as Junior Doctors.
State Enrolled Nurses (hereafter S.E.N.) for all hospitals with immediate effect.
Plentiful supply of such staff worldwide.
Convert by ward based training all carers to S.E.N.s in England.
S.E.N. training in England to be:
a) 2 months college training;
b) followed by 3 months practical ward based training;
c) followed by 2 months college;
d) followed by 3 months ward based training; and so on til qualified.
No nursing desks with computers and chairs.
Only chairs by patients.
S.E.N.s to facilitate all patients (even those marked Do Not Resuscitate) getting water from taps by patients’ beds clearly marked Drinking Water and upended mains connected water coolers with mechanical tubes for immobile patients, otherwise liable to Manslaughter by Medical Negligence.
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carry out nursing tasks
21 September 2010
Healthcare assistants are routinely taking on tasks traditionally performed by registered nurses, ...a survey by Unison has found.
Despite the apparent widening of the
HCA role,(Health care assistants)
almost 60 per cent of respondents said they should be restricted in the tasks and duties they could perform - suggesting assistants have concerns about being asked to perform tasks they are not trained to do.
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...RCN... (Royal College of Nursing) ... has 416,000 members, only 8,000 are healthcare assistants. ... The problem is the vast majority of healthcare assistants are not in any organisation at all. ... the RCN is currently lobbying that we think healthcare assistants should be properly regulated and they should be trained. ... across all sectors, both care homes, residential homes and hospitals, there are nearly half a million healthcare assistants. So it's a huge component of the workforce. ... problem at the moment is in the absence of any mandatory training, it's left to local employers.
Now, there are some trusts that do it really well. They employ people, they induct them, they train them and teach them all of the skills that are needed.
Sadly, at the at the other end of the spectrum, we've come across instances where people have no training at all. They're literally given a tunic, it looks like a nurse's uniform. They're put on wards and they pick it up as they go along. Now, we say that's wholly unacceptable. Source
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