History tells us that a return to 'general' nurses and a generic preregistration qualification would be to the detriment of children's care and nursing skills....
There have been repeated calls to reintroduce a generic preregistration qualification with specialisation in children’s nursing available only as a post-registration option. The danger of such a proposal would be to dilute the skill set of the children’s nursing workforce and significantly extend the time required to achieve it.
Replacing the principle that nurses who work with children should be educated as children’s nurses and the reintroduction of ‘general' nurses as the mainstay of the children’s nursing workforce would involve considerable risk....
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