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Running head: NURSING EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA AND UK 1Comparison of Nursing Education Between Australia and UK Student’s NameInstitutional Affiliation
NURSING EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA AND UK 2Comparison of Nursing Education Between Australia and UKWorking in the UK is a common thing to Australian nurses and similarly UK nurses arecomfortably working in Australia. The similarities and differences in the healthcare models,nursing job opportunities, cost of living and the language of communication between the twocountries compare. The move to compare nursing studies in the two countries comes from thefact that Ausmed has recently become an associate member of the Commonwealth Nurses andMidwives Federation. This will provide a good ground for comparison from the various nursingcategories. Also, from international ranking Australia is the third most popular studentdestination from the US and UK making UK the best country to base our comparison on. Thispaper will compare nursing studies in Australia and the United Kingdom.Firstly, as regard to educational structure, nursing in Australia has been a graduateprofession since 1990 requiring nurses to be holders of a bachelor’s degree. They are alsorequired to complete at least 20 hours of Continued Professional Development (CPD) as part oftheir annual registration renewal. The UK nursing studies on the other hand became a graduateprofession in 2013, requiring graduates to complete 35 hours of CPD (Bartlet et al., 2014).However, contrary to Australia where this is an annual requirement, the 35 hour of CPD in theUK can be spread across a period of three years since the last validation date. Secondly, nurses from the two countries are regulated by a nursing body. UK nurses areregulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and this goes hand in hand with anannual practicing fee. Nurses wishing to transfer their registration to another country are subjectto a registration transfer fee. Nurses in Australia are regulated by Nursing and Midwifery Boardof Australia with an annual practicing fee. Those wishing to transfer their registration are alsoallowed to do so at a fee (Tucker et al., 2015).
NURSING EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA AND UK 3When it comes to work- life balance, nurses in the UK work for about 38 hours in a weekwhile those in Australia work for approximately 40 hours in a week. In both, the weekly shiftsare spread between days, nights and weekends. In the UK, overtime is paid at a standard ratewhile in Australia, overtime rates vary between time-and-a-half to triple times (Kause et al.,2014). With regard to health care rankings, Australian nursing studies is ranked as the 9th of thebest healthcare systems in the world based on World Health Organization (WHO) while the UKholds number 18 of the best healthcare systems. The difference could be accounted for by thefact that, nursing studies has been a graduate thing in Australia for decades as compared to therecently upgraded studies in the UK. Using the same ranking, United States ranks the 37thcountry with the best care systems (Hegney et al., 2016). Nursing practice in both the countries face workforce shortages and therefore competitionfor the job is low. Working opportunities for the nursing graduates are similar with the nursescapable of working in the primary and secondary care systems, in home care, they can practicecommunity nursing a well as hospice care. In the past we have experience Australian nursesworking in the UK and vice versa is also true. However, the transfer of registration fee in bothcountries vary depending on their regulating bodies (Eley et al., 2010). The other controversial aspect of nursing in the two countries is the nurse to patientratios. On average, Australian nurses experience a nurse to patient ratio of 1:4 with the exceptionof night shifts and intensive care patients where the ratio is 1:1. The UK nurses on the other handexperience a nurse patient ratio of 1:8 but this is usually dependent on the location, place ofwork, and level of severalty of the patient. The high dependency ratios are 1:2 and that even goes
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