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Unrealistic expectations

Dave Clarke Lecturer and programme manager, Cardiff School of Nursing and Midwifery

Doreen Crawford Consultant editor, Paediatric Nursing,and a senior lecturer at De Montfort University. These are their own views

Dave Clarke and Doreen Crawford question whether the new Nursing and Midwifery Council pre-registration standards are over ambitious or achievable

THE NURSING and Midwifery Council (NMC) exists to safeguard the public and its new standards relate to the level of competence that is required of all nursing students at the end of their pre-registration nursing programme. However, children’s nurses have separate sets of competency requirements that should set them apart from the other fields of practice.

Nursing Children and Young People. 22, 2, 13-13. doi: 10.7748/paed.22.2.13.s25

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02 March 2010 / Vol 22 issue 2

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