Government agencies and policy makers have an important influence on the practices of CAM practitioners through professional registration, course and training provider accreditation, regulation of the manufacture and sale of CAM products, and accreditation of providers for government insurance schemes.
Venous blood specimen collection is a common procedure that nursing students perform during pre-registration courses, and training for such collections takes place on campus as well as at clinical placements.
The use of reflection in nursing and midwifery is well-established and reflective skills are taught on both pre- and post-registration courses as a way of integrating theory and practice, and of developing students' critical and analytical skills.
There is an expectation that once someone becomes a staff nurse they should start attending post-registration courses and the fact that more mental health nurses were promoted correlates with this finding.
It will also appeal to pre-registration and post-registration courses in intensive care nursing, especially as it has a 'test yourself' section at the end of each chapter – but it is very easy to cheat because the answers are just under the questions!
Those who studied at a higher academic level numbered 18%, whilst only 12.4% either gained a diploma or undertook a pre-registration course without academic credit.
Of the nurses surveyed, 53.4% (n = 134) gave information about the post registration nursing courses they had completed.
And, of course, the geographic information someone enters on a registration form could be pure fiction.
Apart from the pre-registration programmes described above, University Colleges of Nursing also offer post-registration BSc courses and MSc courses.
They have built online registration systems, course Web pages, library catalogs and distance-education programs that would sit largely untouched if students could not access them with lightning speed.
Academic departments at colleges and universities perform various functions that involve teaching, scheduling, registration and course management.
