Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHS
Gana Davis
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Comment on: First students tested on compassion
(following from the last comment)..sorry I meant please ignore SOME of the comments!
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Comment on: Are you compassionate, or too busy to care?
Please can we ignore the above comments and assume that the department in question is evidently badly managed and ppl there extremely stressed. I find it difficult to be compassionate now, at first I could have cried every time I saw a pressure ulcer on Mrs B or the fact that every patient is left to stare at the wall all day in their 'recovery time'. Staffing pressures, workload (that of a HCA and a mini-medic it seems) and unattainable government targets have a way of stripping good people of emotions! Also...3 years of constantly being assessed, never feeling good enough, staff bossing you around/ being consistently called 'the student', and uni work on top of it all takes its toll- to the point where I ask myself why I even entered the 'caring' profession after all?! I absolutely LOVE my patients, but after qualifying am actually considering an alternative career..I feel I need to do a job that I can actually exercise my compassion not one I have to act it whilst walking on egg-shells.
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Comment on: 'Immune to the sound of pain' - Why the lessons of Mid Staffs must never be forgotten
Dear Po Lin Teh and the person who commented above, I think unfortunately you have seen the few nurses that 'don't want to get their hands dirty or be empathetic', the majority of us however went into this job and endured 3 years of (yes still) tough training whilst holding down families, p/t jobs etc..so we know first-hand what caring for people truly is. I realise these are observances seen sometimes-but even more unfortunately one episode of bad practice outweighs 10 good ones. Overall, all of the trainee nurses from my cohort really did and do care alot for their patients- to the point that they would risk a 'bad mark' on their placement to stand up for ill-treatment of patients by certain staff. Personally I think the way forward is to annually 'vet' staff, not by the usual pen and paper ticksheet standards but by their character and how well they do their job..I feel appraisals seem to be failing at this and staff are being kept on for the wrong reasons when other, more caring staff could be doing those jobs alot better.
