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

Saturday, 28 January 2012

Respect the Junior Doctors

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I had some real bad days as an NHS staff nurse. I felt like the stress and frustration would kill me. But there was a never a day where I fe...
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Thursday, 26 January 2012

Worry grows as second senior nurse leaves NMC | News | Nursing Times

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Worry grows as second senior nurse leaves NMC News Nursing Times My god. I hadn't actually realised that the Nursing and Midwifery Cou...
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The Nurse's Lament

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What does Bill Paxton's performance in the movie Alien have to do with NHS Nurses, you ask? In this clip he sounds just like an NHS ...
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012

The Violence

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Once upon a time in the spring of 2010 ( I think) I was scheduled to work a night shift from 8 at night until 8 in the morning.   This wasn...
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012

A New Start

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Hello! Well I have been in the States for months now and still haven't bought a PC.  Blogging from a crappy tiny laptop notebook thing...
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Wednesday, 25 May 2011

New job new life!!

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Nurse Anne is pretty happy right now. My new hospital really seems to have the right idea!! I now have 4-6 patients.  If any of them are...
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Regarding Unions:

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This post is going to be about those fucked up, leftist, evil, worthless extortion machines unions. I hate them.  In the late 19th and ea...
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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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