BMJ 2006;332:51-52 (7 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7532.51-f
Letter
The nursing profession's coming of age
Sign of the times
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Editor—Support for extended powers to nurses is limited and comes from short-sighted consultants who seem to have forgotten the worth of repetitive tasks of the nature presently assigned to nurse practitioners in shaping the consultant of tomorrow.1 Extending the role of nurses to include surgical care makes a mockery of a surgical training scheme that has believed in apprenticeship after a period of intense study in medical school.
Vinay P Rao, research fellow
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA vinayprao@yahoo.com
Competing interests: VPR is a medical practitioner and has been a junior doctor in surgical training in the NHS.
- Young G. The nursing profession's coming of age. BMJ 2005;331: 1415. (10 December.)
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