We have a grade called Advance Nurse Practitioner. Pay is Assistant Director of Nursing band 1.I agree that nurses are not medical professionals, and I don't believe I have ever referred to them as such. Graduate nurses have nursing degrees but they and other para-medics do work in clinical settings so they can correctly, in my view, be referred to generically as clinicians / health-care workers / care-givers.*
In the UK (and I think the US & Canada) there is a nursing grade referred to as nurse-practitioners who are trained and licensed to prescribe a limited number of drugs. I don't think we have that grade here yet although nurses seem to be agitating for something like it.
* Wikipedia seems to agree with me here. Be still my beating heart!
Labour Court decided that the nurses deserved a pay rise
Equally I'm surprised that you miss the fact that all three parties involved agree that a pay rise is warranted hence all parties agree that nurses are currently underpaid.
Where do you get the notion that the HSE ever accepted that a pay rise was warranted, or the Labour Court for that matter??Equally I'm surprised that you miss the fact that all three parties involved agree that a pay rise is warranted hence all parties agree that nurses are currently underpaid.
When I open the link to at the bottom of the file you attached and open the website (https://www.rcn.org.uk/employment-and-pay/nhs-pay-scales-2016-17) the pay scales for the NHS nurses are far higher than listed on the chart.The conclusions in this July 2018 report also give the lie to many of the so-called compelling reasons given in support of the nurses' strike actions. Facts mean nothing of course when you can hold those most vulnerable in our society to ransom.
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