All new nurses to have degrees
Updated on 12 November 2009
All nurses will need to be educated to degree level from 2013, the Government has announced.
At present, nurses receive a diploma after two or three years of training but they will now have to complete three or four years to obtain a degree.
The move is as a result of changes in recent years to the way nurses work, including handling more advanced levels of practice, prescribing and working in specialist disease areas, such as diabetes.
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