Final year students are now being called upon so that they can return to their clinical placements. This is all being done in the wake of the pandemic. The Nursing and Midwifery Council have confirmed that they are going to introduce emergency education to try and support those who are nurses but this is only if they want to take it. At the end of the day, a lot of people are grateful to every student out there who is having a hard time coping with change like this. It is also designed to help those who are experiencing disruption to their study time as well, especially those who come from a nurse agency or a nursing recruitment agency.

In addition to this, it would seem that the regulator has also agreed that first-time midwifery students are going to have a focus on the academic and learning sector. They are not going to attend placement because of the mounting and insurmountable pressure that the system is under right now. All of the undergraduate and post-graduate nurses are going to carry on with their programs as planned and they are also going to have a supernumerary status as well. Andrea Sutcliffe who is the registrar for the NMC has stated that in this day and age, students are tomorrow’s nurses so it is important that they get the support they need so that they can continue their education. At the same time, they do recognise that healthcare services in the UK are under a lot of strain right now. Something needs to be done to make sure that nurses are given the help they need and more needs to be done to ensure that people can continue their education too. Who knows what else is going to happen, but at the end of the day, the nurses are unsung heroes of this time.