Further study opens up career opportunities
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Further study opens up career opportunities

Tonks Fawcett Member of the RCNi editorial advisory board and professor student learning (nurse education), University of Edinburgh

A wide range of master’s courses are available to enhance your clinical practice and improve patient outcomes

In the 1970s, only about one in 20 nurses in the had a degree, and the necessity of such an academic requirement was often viewed with derision. Now, as an all-graduate profession, the importance of a master’s degree for career progression takes on greater potency.

Nursing Standard. 31, 38, 38-39. doi: 10.7748/ns.31.38.38.s44

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