Most novice nurses in Taiwan lack training

 12-May-16, Taiwan, Greater China, Healthcare providers 

A group of local nurses staged a demonstration Thursday in which they urged the health authorities to pay attention to the lack of training given to novice nurses.

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The nurses were also protesting over the requirement that they must provide cross-discipline care, which they said is causing huge work pressure and a high departure rates among nurses.

The protest was organized by the Taiwan Radical Nurse Union to coincide with International Nurses Day.

According to Teng Ya-wen (鄧雅文), president of the union, novice nurses should receive at least three months of training before they are allowed to work independently.

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