James Buchan starts his new column by looking at assistant practitioners
The recent suggestion that assistant practitioners (APs) could be regulated as ‘second level nurses’ brings us full circle. The nursing profession presided over the demise of the enrolled nurse role, but is now seeing it return as an employer-led ‘solution’ to costs.
Nursing Standard. 24, 52, 26-27. doi: 10.7748/ns.24.52.26.s31
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