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Also never acknowledged or published once.uk nursenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-47775581390131335512009-07-07T07:34:33.884-07:002009-07-07T07:34:33.884-07:00I have emailed and tried to write in the "rea...I have emailed and tried to write in the "readers comments" every time The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Mail et al write some garbage report about nurses being "too posh to wash" and "not caring" Not once have I had a response. My "readers comments" are often not published. They'll publish the Bring Back Matron readers comments.<br /><br />If journalists really wanted to do some "investigating" they'd tell the truth. Because of the articles I've read about nursing in the UK I don't really trust any of these papers to be a valid source of truth. I'm unsure as to why they don't want to tell the truth.<br /><br />The papers are all perpetuating the story that nurses are all lazy. <br /><br />The UK definitely needs a Suzanne Gordon figure that would expose all this stupidity.<br /><br />Diane in USAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-42242262337174868472009-07-06T23:19:18.950-07:002009-07-06T23:19:18.950-07:00Going to the media will solve nothing. I'll b...Going to the media will solve nothing. I'll be made out to look like a liar. I'll lose my job and get blackballed. The story will die down. It's not just my hospital that has this going on.<br /><br />The layout of my ward is such that no matter where you are, the patients and visitors and everyone can all see you at all times no matter where you are. It's like being in a fishbowl and you cannot go more than a minute without "excuse me, can you sit my father up in the bed".<br /><br />There is no time set aside for the nurses to get on with it uninterrupted. Even outside of visiting hours. We cannot even read the notes at the nurses station or stand at the end of the beds assessing and doing flow sheets without all the patients in the next beds immediately on us simultaneously with requests.Nurse Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05400048448105519082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-75185051044318533722009-07-06T14:44:38.278-07:002009-07-06T14:44:38.278-07:00For fuck's sake, I would bring a lawsuit again...For fuck's sake, I would bring a lawsuit against your hospital/government for reckless endangerment (of your license and of your patients)! It *is* very much like an abusive relationship. You are the victim yet you get blamed for any 'shortcomings' in patient care. Find some way to get the situation in the news -- the papers, television, everywhere -- before a (preventable) death happens. It's inevitable. And YOU are the one who will be crucified.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07051648654318252545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-15163919386363851082009-07-06T12:33:39.692-07:002009-07-06T12:33:39.692-07:00It is Brutal. There is no other way to describe. ...It is Brutal. There is no other way to describe. I have submitted my resignation 4 times now, and been on this blog saying "ha ha I am gone". But you get sucked back in. It's like going back to an abusive relationship because you "love him".<br /><br />I nearly collapsed on the ward screaming on Friday. I had a patient going bad and I couldn't even get to him due to being bombarded with questions and interruptions (mostly from relatives) and when I did get to him I couldn't concentrate on what I was doing because the patients in the next bed saw me and started shouting for their cupboards to be organised and stuff. I nearly made a fatal mistake.<br /><br />The thing was, I was the only nurse so all the MEDS, PROBLEMS, LABS, FOR THAT GROUP OF PATIENTS FELL TO ME ALONE. More was happening with that than I could keep up with despite running around like a headless chicken.<br /><br />I did however have a gaggle of healthcare assistants. Why couldn't the patients go to them with the "organise my cupboard right now" stuff? It's not like the care assistants could take over the complicated stuff while I was off playing servant.<br /><br /><br />But you cannot explain this to the patients without them jumping up and down and accusing you of being a twat who doesn't want to be bothered with "caring". Therefore there is no point in pointing out to them who is the care assistant and who is the goddamn nurse.Nurse Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05400048448105519082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-79827571228563139702009-07-06T11:35:23.872-07:002009-07-06T11:35:23.872-07:00Anne, you are right on the money, every time. Nur...Anne, you are right on the money, every time. Nurses are expected to be both humble and obedient servants AND skilled professionals (patients/families are outraged when we don't answer the call bell soon enough -in less than thirty seconds- but they are also none too pleased if we administer an inappropriate medication AS ORDERED BY THE PHYSICIAN, we are supposed to (and do) know better). I did not study to become and am not licensed to be a servant. Yet servant I am. Physicians, on the other hand, are WORSHIPED, despite their average intelligence. Medicine is awfully science-y sounding these days, but the truth is (in practice) medicine remains more art than science. Scientists, who are the ones largely responsible for medical progress, get very little credit and (compared to physicians) minuscule paychecks. Nursing is BRUTAL and I have to find a way out because it is KILLING me. Period.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07051648654318252545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-58209127707404162442009-07-06T10:24:50.037-07:002009-07-06T10:24:50.037-07:00I should have said that it should be obvious that ...I should have said that it should be obvious that people are going to wait hours for things that they should only ever wait 5 minutes for.Nurse Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16179750103872489038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-2654730352730474532009-07-06T10:23:53.684-07:002009-07-06T10:23:53.684-07:00That's the thing.
These assholes walk onto a ...That's the thing.<br /><br />These assholes walk onto a ward (or an A&E) and they fucking SEE that the nurses are overloaded. <br /><br />Do they really think that 2 nurses on a ward of 21 patients could really get around to everyone, spend enough time for everyone, and do everything that needs to be done for everyone? It should be obvious that this isn't going to happen. It should be obvious that it is going to take me 3 hours to get everyone their 8AM medicines. It should be obvious that even when I am giving 110% that people are going to have to wait hours for things.<br /><br />But they are all crazy and don't want to face facts.<br /><br />Management knows that they will just blame the nurses and that they themselves will get off scot free.Nurse Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16179750103872489038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-43497726757653162112009-07-06T10:04:19.391-07:002009-07-06T10:04:19.391-07:00Welcome back Anne ;)
"I think I am going to ...Welcome back Anne ;)<br /><br />"I think I am going to start a "Leave the nurses alone and take a goddamn look at the conditions that they are working in, you fucktard" group on facebook."<br /><br />I'll join your group. I got a gob full last week off a 'normally respectable' woman (relative) who was stood in the cubicle doorway watching the scene in the A&E dept on an extremely busy night. Like Beruit it was. <br /><br />Her relative was the well-est patient in the department. She watched doctors and nurses running in and out of a cubicle with bags of blood and all sorts of high-tech equipment. She watched me fly into resus with a baby, shouting for help, fighting my way through ambulance crews and patients in the corridor on route. People collapsing all over the place, other people screaming out in pain waiting for pain relief, nurses RUNNING around like mad to attempt to keep everyone alive and safe. She COULD SEE with her own eyes what was going on. But still chose to 'scream' at me when asking how long they were going to have to wait.<br /><br />Why scream at me??? Why?!?! She was a 'normally respectable' woman. I know she was worried about her relative, I understand that, I really do. But why scream at the nurses when you can see the ridiculous conditions they are attempting to manage. I attempted to pacify her more than once - with explanations that any normal person couldn't really argue with. But...oh no, no. Not the NHS patient/relative... They only see what they want to see. Bollocks to the other patients. <br /><br />So I'll join your group Anne...<br />I'll keep my eyes open for it ;)Happy1https://www.blogger.com/profile/11693039299755894404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-71544504457842891762009-07-06T09:04:31.765-07:002009-07-06T09:04:31.765-07:00Thanks Anne :)Thanks Anne :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-40398529469369310842009-07-06T06:40:03.450-07:002009-07-06T06:40:03.450-07:00...and pull out all my books to get refs. fuck....and pull out all my books to get refs. fuck.Nurse Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16179750103872489038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-56975813883629449152009-07-06T06:30:20.175-07:002009-07-06T06:30:20.175-07:00Fuck. I need to get that into a blog post.Fuck. I need to get that into a blog post.Nurse Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16179750103872489038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-14395254566939764382009-07-06T06:29:34.298-07:002009-07-06T06:29:34.298-07:00Why have humans come around to the idea that docto...Why have humans come around to the idea that doctors need to be well educated and intelligent to do their jobs well? The need for this only came about in the 20th century onwards. Seriously. Up until then medicine was a fucking joke and medical school was for retards.<br /><br />Why do they resent nurses when changes in healthcare demand that nurses need to be smart and motivated as well?<br /><br />Two things. The way media in the 21st century depicts nurses and doctors is one.<br /><br />The second thing is that throughout thousands of years of human history doctors may have been considered brutes with strong stomachs but they were not the most "undesirable" people in society as nurses always were. Therefore people do not recoil so much at the idea of a doctor being respectable.Nurse Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16179750103872489038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-67129726958088243282009-07-06T06:21:22.956-07:002009-07-06T06:21:22.956-07:00Oh and Nurse Anne is really very well versed in hi...Oh and Nurse Anne is really very well versed in history..... Specifically 19th century american history. <br /><br />I recently read a book about medicine in the 19th century (about 100 of them actually). To those people the idea of a doctor needing an education or needing to be anything but a brute with a strong stomach was laughable.<br /><br />But things changed and now doctors need to be the most intelligent and best educated out of all of us in order to do their job well.<br /><br />These same changes have caused the nursing profession to have to step things up as well in order to do their own jobs well. We are just about 100 years behind the docs as far as getting respect from the public.Nurse Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16179750103872489038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-10450120076216031932009-07-06T06:15:50.325-07:002009-07-06T06:15:50.325-07:00Absolutely.
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These people are today's nurses and what they do is very different from being a doctor who diagnoses a disease process and prescribes a treatment. It includes the jobs that nurses did over the last few hundred years plus a million other things. Nurses assess patients and monitor their conditions. They can only do this well with a high level of training. Modern innovations have changed the way that healthcare is delivered. It's damn complicated and a far cry from the days when a STD riddled prostitute was forced to work as a nurse i.e. washing bandages.<br /><br />The job of today's nurses( who take on more responsibilty and use more critical thinking skills on the job than other 3-4 year grads) is extremely complex. We can't just go to work and mop brows and wipe bums. There are millions of other things we need to follow through onas well to avoid harming or killing our patients. We are nurses.<br /><br />A 21st century nurse is different from a 19th century nurse. In the 19th century "doctors" who had less training than a barber cut people's limbs off with a dirty knife and wiped it on the bottom of their shoes. People didn't think that doctors needed to be very well educated back then either. At that time doctors were considered very "beneath" proper professionals such as lawyers and writers. Hell a poet was more respected as an intelligent person than a doctor was. More on that later. With that being the case you can imagine what people though of nurses.<br /><br /> Nursing school is so damn tough now that you cannot make it through unless you are highly motivated and want to be there. And it needs to be that tough.<br /><br />The public hasn't realised that changes in healthcare have led to changes in nursing. Their image of a nurse and people who go into the profession is still very much centred on what a "nurse" was throughout human history.<br /><br />Our patients, their relatives, the public and our employers still see "nurses" as undesirables who are doing the job as a punishment. They still see nurses as undesirables who have been forced into the job, and need watching with a close eye. They may not realise it,but this kind of thinking is in the back of their minds. This kind of thinking is rooted deep down into their subconscious minds as a result of thousands of years of human history.<br /><br />There in lies the crux of the whole problem.Nurse Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16179750103872489038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-90210519486962554562009-07-06T05:42:39.468-07:002009-07-06T05:42:39.468-07:00See, we are always told people behave the way they...See, we are always told people behave the way they do because they are sick and in the hospital. However, they rarely shout at anyone BUT nurses.<br /><br /> Example: I was walking over to an angry looking man with his pills. There is an open plan dining room in our facility where he can see the kitchen. I said the usual "My name is Nurse Blah I'm taking care of you today" and he screamed at me that his breakfast was 15 minutes late. I pointed out the man who was making the breakfast and the male aide that was responsible for bringing the trays and feeding and that they would be able to help him and I'm sure it wouldn't be too much longer. More screaming. At the end of the confrontation I said "Why don't you scream at the people responsible for your breakfast? Or is it that you prefer to scream at women?" He shut up but was polite as pie to the male aide.<br /><br />I've also asked people who scream at me that the doctor promised to be here in the afternoon and where is he that they could perhaps scream at the doctor in the same fashion. But they don't. <br /><br />I think it's down to screaming at people that they know there will be no consequences for their actions, and it's always easier to scream at a woman than it is a man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-58438412615868916542009-07-06T03:29:06.049-07:002009-07-06T03:29:06.049-07:00Thanks for all the comments.
Doc,
We cannot win ...Thanks for all the comments.<br /><br />Doc,<br /><br />We cannot win this fight unless we open people's eyes to what is going on. The outdated images that people have of nurses are the direct cause of a lot of these problems. If people (the public, hospital business managers etc) had any kind of understanding of what the actual situation is things would change.<br /><br />Until this understanding comes about all the incident forms, letters, unions etc etc will continue to be futile.Nurse Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05400048448105519082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-60089963796305523132009-07-06T02:38:51.709-07:002009-07-06T02:38:51.709-07:00This weekend a patient in my ICU had a tattoo on h...This weekend a patient in my ICU had a tattoo on his arm which read "Born Loeser." Poor guy. I know just how he feels.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07051648654318252545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-67542146666409447232009-07-05T10:09:21.625-07:002009-07-05T10:09:21.625-07:00I'm a doctor. There has been months of underst...I'm a doctor. There has been months of understaffing propped up by agency nurses (who can't even find the gauze), recruitment attempts = no one turns up at the interview, no one wants to work in gen med/elderly care. Nasty relatives criticizing (the worst are often actually other nurses). Families who hate each other so much they can't stay in the same room all abusing the staff. The only thing I can do is put an arm around the nurses who are weepy, try to cheer up the frightened/anxious ones who no senior nurse has the time to support, never tell the nurses off (difficult at times) and bring in cakes. I have tried writing to head of nursing, patient safety person, safeguarding adults person about insufficient nursing numbers....nothing happens. What can be done?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-79421952772376411372009-07-05T08:47:05.632-07:002009-07-05T08:47:05.632-07:00EXACTLY Anne...........sometimes i am just too tir...EXACTLY Anne...........sometimes i am just too tired to articulate how i feel........but i just read your post and then i understand exactly how i feel, why i feel it and i feel this huge relief that the disstress i am feeling (why do i cry suddenly when i hear my daughter singing? i just cry for no reason ect) Its because of all the frustrations you articulate so well on your blog. one day you will write a book like that woman who wrote "call the midwife". you have no time now (but you will in your old age). PLEASE keep blogging it helps us. (tell your hubby its better than having an affair or drinking alcohol)Harrynoreply@blogger.com