title: The effectiveness of NVQ TRAINING.
abstract: WITH THE move of nurse education into the higher education sector in the late 1980s, and the resultant establishment of supernumerary status for student nurses, nursing faced the prospect of a shortage of personnel and skills. One attempt to fill this gap was the introduction of the health care assistant (HCA), an unqualified nursing assistant who would receive work-based training, designed to meet the requirements of the National Council for Vocational Qualifications.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Nottingham.
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Clissett