Nurse education in the UK : moving beyond the EU regulations?

Leigh, JA

Abstract

In 2018 the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) launched its Future Nurse and Realising Professionalism standards (NMC, 2018a; 2018b; 2018c). Collectively, these three-part standards specify the knowledge and skills that NMC registrants must demonstrate when caring for people of all ages and across all care settings and they incorporate an EU directive (NMC, 2018d:13). These NMC standards reflect what the public can expect nurses and midwives to know and be able to do to ensure the delivery of safe, compassionate and effective care.
Now that the UK has left the EU, the NMC is no longer required to continue to include the EU minimum requirements within its education standards. This paper critically explores the recent online consultation, which closed in May (NMC, 2021a), seeking the views and input of public groups, professionals and partners across the UK about current education programme standards.

Citation

Leigh, J. (2021). Nurse education in the UK : moving beyond the EU regulations?. British Journal of Nursing, 30(12), 756-757. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2021.30.12.756

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 10, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Jun 25, 2021
• Publication Date: Jun 24, 2021
• Deposit Date: Jun 21, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 25, 2021
• Journal: British Journal of Nursing
• Print ISSN: 0966-0461
• Electronic ISSN: 2052-2819
• Publisher: MA Healthcare
• Volume: 30
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 756-757
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2021.30.12.756
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2021.30.12.756
• Related Public URLs: https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/loi/bjon
• Additional Information: Access Information : This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in British Journal of Nursing, copyright © MA Healthcare, after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2021.30.12.756.