Loss of student nurse bursaries divides opinion
It was announced last week that student nurse bursaries are to cease and that student nurses will have to seek loans to pay for their pre-registration study. The move caused widespread upset in the nursing community as demonstrated by an online petition to keep student nurse bursaries that reached over 135,000 signatures in just a few days. While the initial reaction from many nurses appeared to be shock, disbelief and anger, opinions on both sides of the move were shared when student nurses, qualified nurses and nursing leaders took to Twitter to during a #NurChat discussion on