Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHS
Julia B
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Comment on: Surely being focused doesn’t make me selfish?
I completed my nurse training nearly 5 years ago. My girls at the time were 4 and 6 years when I started. Like the writer people commented to me. I took time with my girls, I requested only early shifts in the week so that i could read them bed time stories, my husband was often not home early as he is self employed so it was imperative that i did that to show them that they were loved. My evenings were spent studying and Sunday was my family day. We made sure that we had a 2 week holiday every year and based it around activites that we all love. Like the writer my husband was, and still is extremely supportive and proud of me. I hardly spoke to him sometimes, we made the effort to eat meals together with the girls as much as possible. Now, looking back I have no idea how I juggled it all, but on discussing it with my girls who are now happy, well balanced confident 12 and 14 years olds. They tell me they think my job is good, they like to tell their friends what their mum does, they remember the bed time stories, they loved the cuddles, they say that it hasnt affected them, they feel and know that they are loved. My younger daughter says that it showed her that you have to work hard to gain anything good in life. It has pushed both of them into looking at respectible careers, one wants be be a police officer, the other working within forensics, I dont know if my training while they were young has influenced this but I do know that they are not resentful and they have not missed out. So I say to you ignore the critics, work and play hard and show your children what you can do!
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Comment on: Swine flu: what every nurse should know
I felt that i wanted to comment re the hand hygeine songs suggested by the singing nurse. My own opinion is that this is a fab idea, as a nurse working in an acute hospital setting, and also a mother, i see many 'lay' people who do not wash their hands enough, if at all. Indeed, my youngest daughter who is 11 commented whilst we were watching the news about the precautions to be taken to prevent the spared of swine flu, that most girls in her school do not wash their hands after washing the toilet,this she felt was discusting, incidently, these are also the gilrs who seem to always be off sick with colds. Start hand hygiene as young as possible and if the mothers arent teaching the children, let the children teach the mothers through their songs from nursey and school!
