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kathleen white
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Comment on: 'Distracted' nurses' drug error killed baby
The comment of ANONYMOUS 27-NOV 2010 00:22am is not a ramble or a complaint. He or she is simply describing real life. It is indescribably sad that a baby died. The bottom line is that everything should be done to make sure that such a tragedy never happens again. Lack of support and poor pay does indeed contribute to such errors. Many staff have to do extra jobs to survive. This leads to exhaustion, lack of concentration and the potential for errors. Anyone who cannot understand that is out of touch with reality. Nursing involves large responsibilities. One split second error can have shocking consequences. Most people understand that. Sadly, however many others do not.
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Comment on: Whistleblowing nurses launch appeal
Yes Anon 26-Aug-2010 6:31pm, this needs to be referred to the NMC. I do hope that the 3 nurses will do so as soon as their appeal is complete. Kathleen White (Edinburgh)
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Comment on: Under 25s 'particularly vulnerable' to STIs
I agree with anonymous 25-Aug 7:40pm. Sex & relationship education is being delivered effectively in some schools by specialist nurses, but it needs to be available in all schools. A piecemeal approach is not good enough. I was one of those specialist nurses until being unlawfully suspended in 2002. My manager had what can only be described as a pathological hatred for me. The fact that that I was good at my work increased that hatred out of all proportion. Senior managers, HR and my union poodle rubber stamped what she wanted ( to hound me out of my post). This is happening on a large scale in nursing. So much so that the organizaion CAUSE was created, see www.suspension-nhs.org Never mind I was given a large sum of money to keep my mouth shut ( money that would be better spent on (sex & relationship education). So, there is more to the problem than meets the eye. Not just funding. It has more to with incompetent,corrupt managers squandering precious funds. Kathleen White (Edinburgh)
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Comment on: PM’s Commission: What happens now?
Yes JJJez. you are right. I tried to provide appropriate resources for my client group,starting in 1999. My nurse manager immediately turned it into gang warfare (divide & rule policy). Never mind I'm a member of an excellent professional organization. What I did not know at the time was that my RCN senior officer who claimed to be representing me was in fact colluding with corrupt managers and so called Human Resource staff. Sadly a decade later nothing has changed. Why? Because most nurses despise each other even more than the poor conditions they choose to endure. The NHS is not a Learning Organization. Kathleen White. Edinburgh
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Comment on: Fear of victimisation stops nurses whistleblowing, says NMC research
I'm afraid that the draft guidance will make littlle difference, as long as we have NHS managers, Human resource staff, and some union reps prepared to lie their way through policies and procedures. I raised concerns about bullyng, breaches of child protection guidelines, health & safety, and basic hygiene. Before long, I was put on Special Leave AKA "Suspended". I used the grievance procedure, but abandoned it when the investigating manager asked me if I understood how serious it would be for me if it could be proved that I was lying!!! Strangely enough my union rep, sitting by my side did not hear him saying that !!!. They certainly do have ways of discouraging staff from reporting concerns. I took the Trust to an Employment Tribunal,but one week before the hearing I was awarded a financial settlement to settle out of Tribunal. Sadly this is still happening to conscientious nurses. Nothing was learned. Intimidation, victimisation and stigmatisation are alive and well. Does this sound familiar to other readers? Kathleen White Edinburgh
