NHS

I see in the papers today that the NHS is recruiting Nurses from Europe, good you might say and so would I, but as always there is a fly in the ointment, most of the ones they have take on can't speak or read English, so what use is that ?, seems not to matter to the people taking on these nurses, one of my maim things that I promote in the hospital is Patient Safety, just how can patients be safe on a ward where the nurses do not speak English, part of a nurses job is to keep up to date with advances in patient care mostly done by e-learning, so why is it that we have so few nurses coming through that are British, well it is my mind sad to say nursing is a University Degree course yes they learn all about illness but for me the one thing many miss out on is working on the ward, many do not understand the word Care it is not part of the vocabulary of these new nurses coming through, the old SRN has gone as has the SEN, now when you visit a hospital you need an instruction book as to what all the different colour coats/jackets that they wear, blue, pink and all sorts meaning as a patient you do not have the slightest idea as to who you are talking too or of what relevance they are too your treatment!, all in all it is a real pigs ear, it really has to be asked why do we not have a grade of nurse in between a health care assistant and a nurse, some who would be a real asset to the profession are being passed by because they do not have the ability to study at university, but they would cope very well with a college on ward training, with out this sort of openings we are to be lumbered with highly educated nurses who have not the slightest idea as to how to care for some poor old person because they have never been told, so sad!!.