06.12.10
NHS Careers launches new website to widen appeal of nursing careers and shatter misconceptions
NHS Careers has launched a new website, Nursing Careers ( www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/nursing ), to promote the wide range of nursing careers available, challenge misconceptions and encourage people to consider a career in nursing.
The website is launched as nurse training shifts from a mixture of diploma and degree courses to an all-graduate entry profession by 2013. In the next three years, the nursing profession needs to attract enough applicants to fill thousands more degree places .
Dean Royles, director of NHS Employers, the organisation which manages NHS Careers, said: “Nurses are a significant and crucial part of the NHS workforce, with a key role to play in the current reshaping of NHS patient care. But there are still misconceptions about what nursing actually entails. As an organisation, NHS Employers is playing a key part in changing those misconceptions and supporting employers, who want to ensure they have employees who are passionate about improving patient care.”
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