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

Saturday, 31 October 2009

Paranormal Ward

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So once upon a time I was one nurse to 80 million patients and..... I just had to start off with that line because that is how every damn po...
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A Comment That Says It All. Awesome.

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I received this comment on the post below this one. WELL SAID ANONYMOUS!! Anne, The UK's health care system is totally screwed! You shou...
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009

The Nursing Times : Where have they been for the last few years?

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Can you believe this shit. How can this be news to these people? Bear with me. I have just complete two shifts from hell so I am in a bad mo...
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Productive ward. Again. Kill me please.

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Productive ward: releasing time to care is back in full swing on my unit. Apparently the ward would run as smooth as silk if only nurses und...
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Sunday, 18 October 2009

Coming back to the bedside: Nurse Amnesia

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I really like Nurse Ratchet and her most recent blog post really struck a chord with me. http://nurseratchet666.blogspot.com/ Ok, so I'v...
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Thursday, 15 October 2009

Another Safe Staffing Video

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I wish I would have posted this below with the other testimony videos. The man in this video has been a bedside nurse for 6 months. Now he i...
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009

The Daily Mail is so Fucked up.

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This article is a few months old. I guess I am really slow. Definitely not as slow as the person who wrote the article below however. http:/...
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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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