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

Sunday, 20 January 2008

Connecting Some Dots

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Staffing issues/Bed Occupancy/ Fucktwit politicans/ Superbugs HAVE A LOOK AT THIS: http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpoolnews/Worries-...
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Thursday, 10 January 2008

Temper Tantrums

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I think I am really losing it as a Nurse. I am still very compassionate but a hardened shell made of diamond has formed around every compas...
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Monday, 7 January 2008

Beauty Salon VS. General Medical/Surgical Ward

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Okay guys check this out. I was talking to my little sister yesterday. She is a hairdresser in the States. She works from 0900 to 1500 dai...
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Wednesday, 2 January 2008

Sorry

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Between a destroyed computer and a sick kid I haven't been able to get on and post for awhile and for that I apologise!! I hope you all...
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Tuesday, 4 December 2007

Rambling on About Care in the Community and bed blocking.

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Have you heard about the care in the community shit? There are no beds in hospital. There is no staff in hospital. The Burger King down the...
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Sunday, 18 November 2007

Handover Fun

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One day I was the only registered nurse for 18 patients (worse than normal number of 15) for all of my shift from 0730 until 2130 hours. At ...
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Saturday, 27 October 2007

A Journalist Gets It Right (and he's not from the UK)

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He is an Editor turned Nurse turned Editor from the Wall Street Journal. This is a huge Newspaper in the US. http://online.wsj.com/article_...
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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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