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, 3 January 2010

A Tale of Two Books

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Nurse Anne always has her head buried in a book, but I tend to avoid fiction like the plague and it's rare anymore that I touch anything...
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Friday, 1 January 2010

Slapheads: RGN version

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I am a big fan of Mental Nurse and wanted to copy their slaphead series . They've done RMN,s, HCA's, Patients, etc in their slaphead...
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Sunday, 27 December 2009

Who wants nurses away from bedside care?

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Anytime there is a piece about nursing or care in our hospitals on the net there is always some shmuck posting his thoughts about what the p...
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Saturday, 26 December 2009

Nice resource about RN staffing ratios

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Remember two things: 1.  NHS nurses on general wards have anywhere from 10-30 patients. 2.  A health care assistant is not a nurse.  Whe...
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Saturday, 19 December 2009

Unsafe Staffing: Time to Jump Ship.

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I have a meeting with our chief nurse next week.  Again.  Let's hope he shows up this time.  I am going to ensure that my words ruin h...
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Sunday, 13 December 2009

The Slovenian model of care

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Wake up and smell the coffee with Ronald Reagan circa 1981. Correct me if I am wrong here  (really I mean that) but isn't this m...
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Owned Part two

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Read part 1 first . So I arrive onto the clusterfuck "surgery suite" at 0800. There was a list on a table of patients due to ar...
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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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