STEM Careers

Part of Women and Equalities – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 26 May 2016.

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Photo of Maria Caulfield Maria Caulfield Conservative, Lewes 12:00, 26 May 2016

Nursing is now a graduate-entry profession, and STEM subjects form part of the course for student nurses. Once they qualify, student nurses take on the role of many junior doctors in prescribing medication and ordering investigations, so does the Minister agree that nursing is a STEM career to which young women, and indeed young men, should aspire?