When is a nursing auxiliary not a 'nursing' auxiliary?

Restrictive Practices This proposed action could be termed a restrictive practice. It seems quite extraordinary that a profession may deem it acceptable to restrict people from doing work in their particular profession, while restrictive practices in force on the shop floor in industry are condemned out of hand by those same professional people. By calling a recognized body of practitioners 'professionals' it is assumed that they will have taken such formal training as will allow them to perform adequately the tasks set before them. It also implies that those not willing or able to take the training are not adequate to undertake the same tasks. To safeguard their standards, most professions will seek ways and means to limit those unqualified, thus restricting the practice of those skills to a specialist group of people. The range of skills thus restricted, together with the essential knowledge, is wide and varied. This can be seen from engineering to accountancy, medicine to architecture, and from teaching to Holy Orders. Some of these restrictions are allowed for by law while others are enforced by employers who will only employ persons for specific posts who hold certain recognized qualifications.