Levels of skill in nursing homes.
There is no relationship between B McCarthy failing to get a job in the NHS and the level of skill of nursing home nurses ('Refreshing attitude a succinct success', Letters, February 17). It is true we rarely use advanced mechanical or electronic gadgetry, but is that nursing? A nurse can recognise patterns on a cardiac monitor - but a pigeon can differentiate stimuli on an oscillascope.
Aarondale Nursing Home, Lancashire.
Josephine
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Greenan