Nursing Associates
(asked on 8th November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the specific role is of nursing associates; and what effect that role has on the role of qualified nurses.
This question was answered on 15th November 2016
The new Nursing Associate role will create a bridge between senior healthcare support workers with a Care Certificate and registered nurses.
Nurse Associates will work with healthcare support workers to deliver hands on care, freeing up registered nurses, so they can spend more time using their specialist training to focus on clinical duties and to take more of a lead in decisions on patient care.