Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHS
anne cassidy
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Comment on: PRESCOTT HAS CREATED NEED FOR CRISIS BUS SUMMIT
Well done Simon. Once again your honesty is an inspiration to us all. Depression is not a crime and although it might be taboo amongst nursing professionals how can we help anyone else if we can't help ourselves and be open and honest about the fact that we are only human too. It is a kind of snobbery to treat our patients for depression whilst looking down on depression as though it is something to be ashamed of if we had it ourselves. Well done you.
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Comment on: Student nurse blog: A sad farewell, but I will be back
Well done Erin, no experience is wasted, it is not how many times we fail but how many times we pick ourselves back up again and start over and you sound as though you have all the ingredients to make a wonderful, caring, compassionate nurse. Sometimes its the setbacks that make us a better person, with the stamina to run the course and with more understanding towards others. It is no disgrace to fail at something because it takes a lot more courage to carry on and not give up. Wishing you all the best to be the best you can be. There's plenty of room at the top.
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Comment on: Union calls for constitutional guarantee on minimum staffing levels
About time - hurrah! At last a bit of common sense.
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Comment on: Primary care blog: We must never forget patient dignity
I'm sure all caring nurses agree with these sentiments entirely too. How different it is on the frontline though when the expectations of what staff can achieve with limited numbers is totally unrealistic. We are in an age of nursing care where the bats have got into the ivory towers, where all standards appear to be lip service because it is all about paper and not patients. It's all about looking good, and not doing good. Coping is not the same as caring. Someone, somewhere, please give us the tools to do the job and stop spouting on about ideals that are unachievable without the workforce, it only lowers staff morale to be told what they should be doing, when they want to be doing it but can't because they are told to do other things first as a priority to tick target boxes. We all know what the probelms are, at least those on the coal face do, so lets stop burying our heads in the sand and actually make a difference, by giving us some action on what's needed, enough talk, lets see some action.
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Comment on: NHS trusts urged to improve financial performance
Hey don't get me started. Just going to put on some soothing music before I go into my rant. I'm due to retire from my career as an NHS nurse in a few years. Having worked in management I had to give it up. I couldn't justify my existence. Rounds of endless meetings that achieved mostly nothing. I have seen the trust I work for change names at least 4 times if not more. All that headed paper binned every change, new logos painted on hospitals and ambulances, a big chunk of money not even being spent on the so called 'service user'. Times that across the country for every name change, phew what a scorcher A nurse chastised me once for using too many wipes to clean an incontinent patient. I bit my tongue hard and tried to smile sweetly. On average our car park is empty at the weekends, just a few frontline workers in to care for the patients, Monday to Friday its chock a block with admin staff. Not saying we don't need them but hey where's the balance there. It seems every shift I work is always one staff member short of the required number of nurses we would need to do the job properly. Maybe then we could sit and hold some hands at the bedside. Dream on. Managers must remember that without the patients we would all be out of a job. We're here for them, they're not here for us, or are they? Sometimes it makes me wonder.
