Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHS
Mike Firth
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Comment on: Prisoners have better diets than NHS patients
I lost 32kg due to illness and neglect over a short period. The dietition brought in was brilliant, as she left a young nurse came to talk to me about healthy eating after the dietitions plan was calories ++. I just laughed and laughed. Nurses lack basic techniques in observation and nutrition. And of course are told in school meals and feeding are menial tasks for others to do.
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Comment on: Prime Minister's Commission wants nurses' views
I have just spent 7 months in the hospital where I previously worked as a nurse as a patient. I concur with the last respondent and more. Nursing has lost its way since I was trained in the 70's. (I left the profession on health grounds a short while ago) Compassion is missing. To much time spent on pills and paperwork. Nurses simply do not take on board what patients and NOK say. They dont listen you can see it in their eyes they are looking to the next task. I have huge concerns that nurses at all levels do not take the basic of cares with the administration of drugs and the reliance of the NHS to rely on nurses whose first language is not English is frightening. Theres a lot that remains good with the nursing profession especially in extended roles but it has been a the cost of ward based staffing levels and dare I say it a degree in nursing is not a degree in nursing as I know it. I am now a marine biologist
