Sir, - With reference to the points structure to the various courses for higher education, I find it very hard to believe that students now need a degree to nurse.
I doubt very much that the nursing profession could improve any more by going through university. It is a known fact that nurses brought through the old system - i.e. being taught on the wards from the start - are far more confident and knowledgeable that some doctors.
I would like to know why the system is now designed to make it more difficult to enter this great profession at a time when our hospitals are crying out for nurses. - Yours, etc.,
Joe Harvey, Glenageary Woods, Co Dublin.