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, 31 August 2010

Um. What does this tell you?

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http://www.nursingtimes.net/whats-new-in-nursing/news-topics/health-workforce/dramatic-decline-in-nursing-posts-fuels-job-fears/5018755.art...
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Wednesday, 4 August 2010

Dame Christine Beasley

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So who thinks that she would grant this site an exclusive interview? Anyone?  You can place your bets in the comments section. I am goin...
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Tuesday, 3 August 2010

Charlotte Gets Yelled at For Feeding a Patient.

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Charlotte is a colleague of mine who is excellent at her job.  She completed her training at University about 6 years ago. She is a wonder...
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Monday, 2 August 2010

They have sunk even lower.

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Can't believe I am having to tell you guys this. We are losing our cadets/apprentices whom we have been trying to get up to speed for...
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Sunday, 1 August 2010

Dear Mental Nurses, Doctors...anyone really

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What the fuck is going on?  I need you to shed some light on something for me. Why are GP's sending self harmers and anorexics who ste...
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Monday, 26 July 2010

This Makes Me Sick

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Today I learned that my ward is gaining more beds.  We will be taking more acute patients and having higher throughput.  After a letter writ...
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010

Nurse Anne's Information Pamphlet for Patients and Relatives: PART 1

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I would like to print out a little pamphlet called "let go of your delusions" and hand it to every alert and oriented patient who ...
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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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