title: Education is needed to ensure high quality, fundamental care.
abstract: Nursing Standard (editorial April 13) refers to a comment about nursing associates by Health Education England's nurse director Lisa Bayliss-Pratt at a conference in Australia. She is quoted as saying that if we don't upskill our support workforce then graduate nurses may end up 'getting dragged down doing fundamental care'.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Carter
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D006113:United Kingdom