Role expansion is really just more scraps
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Role expansion is really just more scraps

Lesley Street , East Sussex

I read with interest the articles regarding the reduction of junior doctors’ hours (news January 8). While I agree with the expansion of nurses’ roles, providing it is in the patient’s best interest, I cannot help thinking that we are being thrown scraps from the doctors’ table, yet again.

Nursing Standard. 17, 22, 30-30. doi: 10.7748/ns.17.22.30.s48

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