Nursing associates’ maximum potential
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Nursing associates’ maximum potential

Lynne Pearce Health journalist

Being a nursing associate can offer job options beyond band 4, and progression for healthcare assistants aspiring to nurse registration

Although nursing associates only entered the Nursing and Midwifery Council register in 2019, they have already become an integral part of the nursing workforce, says Claire Whittle, head of trainee nursing associates at University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust.

Nursing Standard. 39, 3, 54-55. doi: 10.7748/ns.39.3.54.s19

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