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, 20 April 2010

Mixed Sex Wards.

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The government has maintained that these wards must be disposed of as soon as possible. The Nurses must do more to prevent patients from be...
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Sunday, 18 April 2010

Thank You Dr. Pena

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The Nursing Times as recently published an article highlighting the issue of the UK's obscene Nurse to Patient ratios on general wards....
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Wednesday, 14 April 2010

The Onus is on the Nursing Staff

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45 minutes to dismantle, clean and rebuild a bed. This is the trust's latest trick in fighting infection control.  They continue to ...
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Monday, 5 April 2010

This Cartoon says it all

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http://www.journalofnursingjocularity.com/category/humor/cartoons/
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Sunday, 4 April 2010

Too many untrained staff.

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I lost my mojo with writing a wee bit.  But I thought I would update you on any new developments. Awhile ago I explained that my trust was...
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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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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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