title: The RCN warns against a two-tier system with HCA apprenticeships.
abstract: New apprenticeships for healthcare assistants who do not have the qualifications to undertake nursing degrees must not undermine the profession's graduate-entry status, the RCN has warned.
authors.forename: Kat
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Keogh
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gillen
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D011231:Preceptorship / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards*; D012956:Societies, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000145:classification*; D006113:United Kingdom