Hi everyone,
I am one of a group of nurses in Scotland
attending napier university our course is
BSc(HON)Homeopathy.We will be the first nurses in the U.K. to be qualified nurse
homeopaths. I would love to hear from any other nurses out there who are using homeopathy within their field or anyone on a
similar course.

Will you actually be allowed to use remedies in hospital as opposed to allopathic stuff or will you work in the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital?

Hi Ricky,
What everyone is hoping for is that we can set up nurse lead clinics.There is at present
one nurse lead clinic in Edinburgh but this is a pilot scheme.G.P.'s where asked to refer
to the clinic instead of the hospital and all
seemed happy enough to do so.Mainly because of the long waiting lists.There are more and more homeopaths setting up in private so it
makes it extremely difficult to get any homeopathic help on the N.H.S.

Am sure that these homeopaths would be only too pleased to work for NHS. They did in England until 2 years ago when the Funding all changed and now there is no money to employ them.Maybe things are different in Scotland.

We are already allowed to do this in Norway, regardless of being a nurse or not.
But, its sabotaged by gps..sure you will experience the same thing.
In my experience, its a drawback, to have nurse or gp education, to often..this leads to dabbling , instead of homeopathy, making a mockery out of homeopaty.
Your either a homeopath, or your not, no one is gp or homeopath, or nurse and homeopath.
To me, and to most that follow hahnemann, practising homeopathy, this is the sure sign of a dabbler..using titles like gp hom, dr hom.etc..and its the sure thing, according to organon..

Hi
I seem to have stirred up some strong feelings.I myself belive there is room for all types of homeopaths.I don't belive having
a medical back ground is wrong and in some cases this can helped.In Scotland we have more G.P.'s with a qualification in homeopathy than any where else.This can only
be a good thing it highlights the fact that patient want alternative therapy.We now have to put in place a practitioner to deal with this need.
Should lay homeopaths and people within the
medical profession with a homeopathic qualification not be able to work together
instead of this them and us senorio.Surley
only our patient can benefit from such a rich
wealth of knowledge and commitment to this
field.

"Lay" homoeopaths in the UK, although they are very often better prescribers than those who are medically qualified, in the eyes of the public, are often considered inferior.

For example, one of the most well-respected local medical homoeopaths was wont to prescribe daily repeat doses of centessimals, unsuccussed. This is in direct contradiction to the Organon, and shows the pitfall of a training that can't leave behind its roots in allopathic dosing.

The term "lay" is itself derogatory since it alludes to the Church of England in which there are fully ordained clerics and unordained "lay" members.

Many UK homoeopaths would welcome the financial security of even a nurse's salary and the opportunity to treat poor patients for free that the NHS would provide, but in its lack of wisdom, the NHS has withdrawn this option, turning instead to training its own nurses [of which there is a desperate shortage for nursing itself].
It seems rather a stupid policy.

Hi Anna,
I couldn't agree more that we have a shortage
of nurses within the N.H.S but that doesnt
mean that I or any of my colleagues on the courses by staying in our own fields would
make a difference. Most of us that are on the
course are there because we have been in nursing a long time and know in our hearts
that we can do better for our patients.I know
feeling can run high about what homeopaths are called but at the end of the day we all
want the same thing.This must be a good thing
that most trust are eagerly awaiting the end
of our course so they can give a good quality
sevice based within the N.H.S with links to all the homeopathic hospitals.I am sure you
would agree that anything which helps highlight homeopathy and the need for it within the N.H.S who ever it allows to carry
this out must be in a way good for all homeopaths

Hi everyone,
I would just like to thank you all for making
me feel so welcome. It's nice to see you are
so accepting of other professionals within the field of homeopathy it makes my heart swells.
Where would we be today if we didnt have a
willingness to learn from each other.Instead
of closing people out just because they dont
fit your picture of how something should be.
kind regards.

Since I am at a distance and you can't kill me for this: competent homoeopaths are usually those whose intelligence is more comparable to that of a doctor than of a nurse.
Some nurses are intelligent, but on the whole, they do not have the intellect of doctors, or they would have trained as doctors.
A good homoeopath needs the intelligence of a doctor plus some other qualities.