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, 30 March 2010

So you think Britain is a Nanny State? Random thoughts on Obamacare.

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Well Britain is a nanny state.  And it's pathetic.  And it looks like America is heading down that road as well.  http://www.mcall.com...
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The Medical Ward Sisters Song

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To the tune of 99 bottles of beer. 5 little stressed out Sisters on the wards, 5 little stressed out Sisters , when one of those Sisters h...
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Monday, 29 March 2010

Even More Fun at Mealtimes and Productive Ward

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At 6 PM they send a food trolley up to the ward.  At 6:30 they take it away. On this particular shift we had 2 RN's and 2 care assista...
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Monday, 22 March 2010

So Where is Anne?

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I am job hunting. And working a lot.  I was hoping that working double shifts would get me some extra cash but they are back to not paying...
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Saturday, 6 March 2010

Are They Hiring?

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I just had a look at my Trust's current vacancies. There are jobs for managers and administrators, purchasing officers, and HR. Lots...
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Dehydrated: 12 hours of Hell

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Had a lovely shift recently. 25 patients to one Nurse.  That Nurse was me.  My only help was an agency carer with no experience who could ...
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Wednesday, 3 March 2010

The Department Of Stealth

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Yes the good old DoH.  What the hell is their malfunction? I read this today and I nearly choked on my coffee. Nurses must be better tr...
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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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