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Jeremy Benton Recently qualified staff nurse, Workingin a community hospital in Oxford

Prepare yourself for the brave new world of preceptorship, writes Jeremy Benton

The plan to introduce compulsory postgraduate preceptorship is closer to becoming reality after the last Nursing and Midwifery Council meeting. It is claimed that while the current three-year programme produces nurses ‘fit for practice’, they are not ‘fit for purpose’. To achieve this will take a year, apparently, or 1,800 extra hours.

Nursing Standard. 19, 43, 72-72. doi: 10.7748/ns.19.43.72.s61

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