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

Thursday, 30 December 2010

Things I would love to say

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Just once I would like to tell these patients and relatives how it is, without worrying about getting fired. Why? You ask.... Because ...
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Friday, 17 December 2010

A Letter from the RCN

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From Peter Carter: "Last week we wrote to you with news of an important proposal from the NHS in England. Despite already impos...
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Monday, 13 December 2010

No.

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Get a load of this . Health campaigners have responded angrily to a suggestion from an NHS boss that staff could “donate” a portion of the...
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Friday, 10 December 2010

Nursing in the NHS: A Comparison

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Having worked both abroad and in the NHS I noticed a few things.     Man oh man have I noticed a few things.   Nurses in British hospit...
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Thursday, 9 December 2010

Post from a disillusioned Nurse

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I found this on allnurses and can understand everything this poor girl is saying.  It is all true.  Families and Patients behave this way b...
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Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Minnesota Nurses tell it like it is

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Please understand that this is very relavent to what is going on the UK. We may have national hospitals but we also have hospital chiefs e...
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Save the nurses!

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Why oh why is the RCN not doing stuff like this?
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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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