Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHS
Andrew Reid
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Comment on: Nurses making too many child drug errors
So what is the point of a nursing degree? Perhaps they should have better more old-fashioned training on the job over a longer period like they used to do thirty years ago. Whoever thought of the degree-ification of nursing idea to find an excuse to pump up nurses salaries, ought to be strung up. The business of creating suoer-nurses could have worked perfectly well within the apprenticeship style training. Taking the best nurses out for further training would have been far superior to inculcating a culture which made every Tom Mary, and Tracey, think they were sub-doctors. A big, big, mistake. Nursing is a technical profession with some social skills added on. If it is anything else, you end up with nurses failing to prescribe properly, patients not being fed, and new patients bineg put on bloody infected matresses. Nurses think they are doctors....
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Comment on: MHRA issue infection alert on mattresses
Unless this is in the control of a bacteriologist and senior nurse, and nurses are part of the process (whether they are actually doing the checking or making sure daily someone else doing it) then this is all hot air. No one is is going to do this work. Everyone will say it is someone else's job. it will be the odd complaint by patients about bloody matresses to nursing staff who will tell the people in charge of maintaining beds.
