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, 28 January 2011

What it is like.

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Back to the Medical Ward. Yay. NOT. My 13 hour night shift was due to end  at 0700; at which time I have to be ready to give report ...
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Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Had a Blast on the Surgical Ward. part 2

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I just remembered one of the best things I experienced during my little shift on the short stay surgical ward. His name was Sam. No no n...
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Had a Blast on the Surgical Ward.

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When Gladys is admitted to hospital she ends up on a medical ward due to her chronic COPD, diabetes, and Anemia.  She is sick and tired of...
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Sunday, 23 January 2011

Judith Potts is at it again

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I am actually really embarrassed for her.  She really isn't  doing her research before she writes these pieces.  Her ignorance is astoun...
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Managers who support the pay freeze:

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From this wonderful blog. Salaries of NHS bosses who back increment freeze Twelve senior NHS managers wrote to the Health Service Jour...
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Saturday, 22 January 2011

Ward Nurse Suspended...

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I received a cry for help in my email inbox this week. It was from the husband of a registered nurse who has been qualified and working on...
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Another article on Hospital care.

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Should we bother writing to this woman and explaining how unrealistic her expectations were and how greatly she misunderstood the situatio...
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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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