Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHS
Kelly Allin
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Comment on: 'Give us better wages and more staff, then we'll see better results' - Nurses attack the PM's commission
I have to agree somewhat about many nurses not caring about politics but most nurses I speak to who don't care have just had their 'full' of the way they are treated and have spent years worrying and fighting, filling in incident forms etc. our hospital is getting much worse not better. Most nurses are worked into the ground and when they get home if they worried about politics it would take up even more of their personal time and family life as it is all consuming as it is. Who can honestly say that they can switch off when you get home at 22.30 and have to get up at 5.30 with the amount of information that your brain has to process over the shift. Its near impossible. Most of us must have gone to work after a night of not a winks sleep. Thus I see why some nurses are resigned to the fact that things will never change and they become empty vessels that turn up for work and just quote on quote, 'don't care anymore'. I hate it as if all of us actually stood up for ourselves, the government would be forced to listen and make changes. Once again today I did the work of atleast two staff nurses! How do they expect it to be safe when I have 9 patients with two patients who needed HDU but no beds and still they hassle you for beds due to A+E Breaching targets. They got atleast an hours overtime again! But I'm sick of moaning WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING, I BEG YOU ALL! Government: Take note, THROUGH IGNORANCE, you will loose good nurses due to stress, exhaustion,depression and injuries. The way things are going even some good nurses will break or make mistakes! Enough is enough.
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Comment on: 'Give us better wages and more staff, then we'll see better results' - Nurses attack the PM's commission
My comment above was also in response to Weir- DicKinsons interview! APALLING. If things carry on the NHS will loose all its good nurses and then they will have to spend some money instead of us bailing them out with free overtime!!!!!!
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Comment on: 'We need to be clear about our primary responsibility'
These comments have brought me to tears the same way I usually go to sleep at night. I feel sick to the stomach. I work through my breaks and work on average an hour a day over my shift to help the other nurses get back on track due to the fact we are looking after 17 acutely ill patients with two staff nurses and one healthcare a majority of the time. With these numbers prioritising means neglecting tasks which may have an equal value of importance. Thus how can he say that this does not impact on quality and SAFETY OF CARE. Nurses want the best for patients also, so give us the means to do so. In the media an emphasis was placed on poor Dimentia care and suggested we all need better training. Yes this may help but when a Dimentia patient is placed on an acute surgical ward its staff we need not training, because they need time, company and stimulation, not to be sat in a corner as everyone is tied up with poorly patients! Its common sense. I am shocked and dissolusioned by the lack of respect for nurses. Why is it assumed that we like to provide poor care? Who gets blamed for staffing issues? Nurses! We get the frustration and anger from relatives. Every day I have to self counsel because there is no support from management because their hands are tied and are too busy to worry about our welfare. The girls on the ward are so demorilised which does not breed excellence! These organisations pretend to understand with fake sympathy but we bang our heads against brick walls when fighting to highlight these issues. It worries me that the organisations in which we are governed care little in regards to staff health and stress and whether or not we are forced to work in unsafe environments. And yes most of the time it is UNSAFE and I am not gonna be afraid to say it because its the truth and I will fight to the end to PROTECT THE PUBLIC! I am sick of pretending everything is ok, it is like the world of nursing is brainwashed to be silent and subserviant. Our job is made impossible by contradictory policies. We are susposed to raise concern, but make sure you do it in a way that basically allows concerns to continue. If anyone feels my pain please say, its time we stood up for the public and for ourselves.
