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> without much affecting the quality of the doctoring / nursing In England "registered nurse" is a protected title. The requirements for being a registered nur
by DanBC 6y ago
> without much affecting the quality of the doctoring / nursing
In England "registered nurse" is a protected title. The requirements for being a registered nurse have changed over time. You used to be able to qualify then register, or work then register without getting the qualification. So we have a natural experiment with older nurses in England. Some are qualified and registered, some are unqualified and registered. We see from research that the qualification helps with patient safety.
I hope you can see that there are significant differences between learning a language and treating patients.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> So we have a natural experiment with older nurses in England. Some are qualified and registered, some are unqualified and registered. We see from research that the qualification helps with patient safety. As described, you see from research that nurses with the qualification are better than nurses in the same cohort without. This is confounded all kinds of different ways; it doesn't come close to establishing that the qualification helped. (The most obvious confound, though -- say, do nurses with a bachelor's degree outperform nurses with "some college"? -- does tend to suggest that, in the absence of immigration, overall quality levels will go down if the average quality of immigrants is higher than the average quality of natives.) > I hope you can see that there are significant differences between learning a language and treating patients. Of course, but I don't see that those differences are relevant here.