Going Back to Work
By Mark Graham
@marky7 (563)
Independence, Louisiana
September 25, 2016 7:25pm CST
How many people have taken a few years off and then decide to go back to what worked for them? I was a nurse for 13 years and an aide two years before that. Decided to go back to school and add all that knowledge to from human services, counseling and graduate school education in order to do activity therapy as a mental health technician and find out that the company now requires them to have a Certified nursing assistant course as well. Times do change from the centuries. I started work at the tail end of the twentieth century and now in the twenty-first century one must have more things behind them that really should not matter if you have the knowledge and the experience needed to do the work. I am an inactive practical nurse why isn't that enough to be a nurse aide/mental health technician.
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@garymarsh6 (23979)
• United Kingdom
29 Sep 16
Nursing certainly has changed over the years however some degree educated nurses do not like to roll their sleeves up and actually touch patients God forbid. We call those nurses too posh to wash nurses. In all seriousness who would saddle themselves with thousands of pounds of debt to become a nurse these days.
We are going to see a massive shortage of nurses here in the UK. Some things change for good but are not necessarily good.
