To Implement a User Friendly Interface and Display System.

Introduction The topic which will be covered in this project is ‘The public relation (PR) strategies used in promoting the nursing degree amongst young people’. From the Royal College of Nursing’s (2004, pg 214), nursing is defined as “The use of clinical judgement in the provision of care to enable people to improve, maintain, or recover health, to cope with the health problems, and to achieve the best possibility quality of life, whatever their disease or disability, until death”. According to Jaanina Jaan (2008) the nursing profession has ‘witnessed a lot of changes over the last few decades’. In this rapidly changing environment, there is a high importance given to nursing jobs and this is why a nursing degree is vital. It is also important to notice the changing trends in these areas for gaining a successful career path. Ann Keen the Minister of Health (2009) announced that all new nurses will have to hold a ‘degree-level qualification’ to enter the profession from 2013. Keen (2009) also noted that all students who undertake a nursing degree will ‘receive a government bursary as the hospitals have a low number of nurses at present’. A bursary is a sum of money scholarship arranged to a university student in need and this is available to all nursing students as it is government funded. According to William Harrell (1994) PR is about reputation, with the aim of earning understanding, support, influencing views and performance. It is the planned