Career advice
Matrons in the NHS: evolving roles, responsibilities and pay
Matron roles offer extensive career opportunities for senior nurses, giving them a platform to influence plans and policies that affect nursing care and patient safety in their organisations. Two matrons, working in different NHS hospital departments, explain the work they do and how their clinical input improves decision-making. They discuss the rewards and pressures of being a matron, and how they manage their work stresses. Agenda for Change pay banding for matrons is outlined, as is the evolution and modernisation of a nursing role that has been misrepresented by nostalgia and caricature
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