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

Friday, 29 October 2010

Dense Doctors

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That title may sound a bit harsh.  I know that our doctors are very intelligent when it comes to medicine. But apart from that they seem...
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Friday, 8 October 2010

Holy Shit

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Not content with forcing RNs to take on more patients than they can handle, recruitment freezes, pay freezes,  and hellish working conditio...
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Thursday, 7 October 2010

Break

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Hi Everyone, I know I haven't been blogging much and I apologise for that.  I have been really busy lately.  I may just take this blog...
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Thursday, 30 September 2010

Quote from a Newly Qualified Nurse

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Found this quote on the Nursing article linked on the post below. I am a newly qualified nurse working as an auxiliary on the bank when I ...
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Monday, 27 September 2010

Pay Freeze or Job Loss?

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Reason number 386 that we are all trying to get out of the UK.  The pay. Registered Nurses (Not care assistants) already work a large number...
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Friday, 24 September 2010

Footloose: Nursing School Style

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From the Louise Herrington School of Nursing at Baylor University . For a Baptist school with a strict academic admissions criteria whic...
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Another Classic Quote from High Level Nurse

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We already had a previous comments post. This new comment wins hands down.  I cannot tell you if the person who said the following is a Ma...
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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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