Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHS
mustbemethen
Hampshire
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Comment on: Nurse shifts linked to abnormal eating habits
As already metioned many years ago we were looked after, but then the pay was a pittance. The breaks were an hour for lunch or dinner plus a breakfast, an afternoon tea and coffee break. We worked 42/40 hours then. The all day and night breakfast was available for shift patterns. However, there was a sister's and a separate doctor's dining area with waitress service. Minions had to queue! They were the old days, long gone and possibly for the better, except the time factor of meal breaks. Today the notion of being able to walk to the canteen eat and drink in half an hour is frankly ludicrous. I come off duty regularly dehydrated because of lack of time and facilities to be able to drink a full cup of coffee or even to get to a tap for water, let alone the designated half hour break! Yes I do have very abnormal eating habits due to this. But the job is still the job I love and I would not change it for an office envoironment having sampled that also!
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Comment on: 'Nurses have become too important for basic care', and other nonsense
I am surprised he doesn't blog for the Daily Mail, if he did he could hit the headlines instead of being relegated to blog obscurity! He is probably the same age as myself- a slightly over the hill type- sad but true! However unlike me he cannot see the staggering improvements in today's enlightened NHS. He is no longer capable of admiring the advances in medicine, nursing and nurse education and is sadly a bigot! I remember his type well, as I worked with many of his ilk, but rest assured he will be retiring soon. However, despite this, he will not relegate himself to the greenhouse and all things horticultural but will continue to comment on subjects in that utopial historical haze which critically blurs his vision, eroding any acheivement or progress. Let him have his say. I believe that the new doctors emerging are better educated than him and they will continue to embrace the contribution of all health disciplines to patient care ie a Multi Disciplinary Approach - another immense progression. I have recently returned to nursing after training in the 70's gaining a degree module in the process and have been mightily impressed by all grades of nurses and (dare I say it) doctors, be they students or fully qualified. Student nurses on their placements have been outstanding and are certainly not afraid to become involved with every aspect of patient care alongside all my collegues. I now work on a specialised acute ward but at the other side of the spectrum I also nurse the older person perhaps waiting for a care package and staggeringly enough, Dr Crippen, we are all ready to nurse, care and acheive the best outcome for our patients. All care is now based on sound research principles and we can consign this Doctor and his type eventually to the scrap heap and treat his remarks with the contempt they deserve.
