Militant Medical Nurse

This Angel is pissed off. I'm Nurse Anne and I work on large general medical ward in the NHS. These are the wards with the most issues surrounding nursing care. The problems are mostly down to intentional understaffing by hospital chiefs that result in a lack of real nurses on the wards. "The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain, for they merely make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy and the narrow more narrow"-Florence Nightengale

Tuesday, 6 November 2012

PFI's!!!

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Holy Shit!  No goddamn wonder British hospitals cannot afford to hire RN's  for the bedside.
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David Cameron's Hourly Rounding Sheets

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  I had been planning to post about this years ago. Oh well. Better late then Never. I read with astonishment David Cameron's co...
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Saturday, 3 November 2012

Mealtimes USA.......

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........Fucking love it. My older readers will certainly remember an old post of mine regarding hospital mealtimes in the UK.  http://mi...
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Saturday, 18 February 2012

Random Thoughts and Stories

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Once in a while I start blogging and then run out of steam. I have many many saved half posts stored on this blog that have never been finis...
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Thursday, 16 February 2012

It's Snowing in Hell.

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I can't believe it.  I actually experienced support and back up from a physician the other day.  I am so in shock I can barely type. I...
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Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Horrible things that Doctors do to Nurses

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In my last post prior to this one I talked about my sincere respect for Junior Doctors and all they go through.  And that wasn't bullshi...
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Saturday, 28 January 2012

Respect the Junior Doctors

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I had some real bad days as an NHS staff nurse. I felt like the stress and frustration would kill me. But there was a never a day where I fe...
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Nurse Anne
I am a university educated registered nurse. We had a hell of a lot of hands on practice as well as our academic courses. The only people who say that you don't need a brain or an education to be an RN are the people who do not have any direct experience of nursing in acute care on today's wards. I have yet to meet a nurse who thinks that she is above providing basic care. I work with nurses who are completely unable to provide basic care due to ward conditions. I have lived and worked in 3 countries and have seen more similarities than differences. I have been a qualified nurse for nearly 15 years. I never used to use foul language until working on the wards got to me. It's a mess everywhere, not just the NHS. Hospital management is slashing the numbers of staff on the ward whilst filling us up with more patients than we can handle... patients who are increasingly frail. After an 8-14 hour shift without stopping once we have still barely scratched the surface of being able to do what we need to do for our patients.
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