Act now to reduce impact of staffing crisisTiger Girl's Comments
Comment on: Half of student nurses to do community placement in future
tinkerbell | 29-May-2013 10:38 am 'Hope you have some private healthcare insurance in place.' And the people who cannot afford private care? Oh silly me - forgot the principles this mob work to, for a minute there!
Comment on: Roger Kline: 'With Francis' main concerns ignored, expect more scandals'
To rub salt into the wound, nurses are singled out as so lacking in compassion they must spend a year as healthcare assistants (unregulated) to learn compassion. I'm not sure this idea is about teaching compassion: I think the idea is that people who lack compassion, would perhaps be unwilling to work as HCAs before entering nurse training?
Comment on: 'Hospice funding must reflect the number of deaths that occur there'
Anonymous | 26-May-2013 1:42 pm Mike was, I think, commenting about the banner for this one: and he is right, as anyone who has read the stuff about the LCP in the press, will realise. Tinkerbell, I find it more unsettling, than strange, but it is very sad.
Comment on: Peter Carter: 'The time has come to get to work'
That said, the RCN is an organisation that seeks to work with government, not against it, in order to achieve positive change for both staff and patients. Working with someone, can include pointing out when they are wrong about something. While the RCN clearly needs to be on speaking terms with goverment, that doesn't mean bending the knee at every interaction.
Comment on: Does opening windows reduce infection rates?
Perhaps Cummings needs to move on to the D list? Defenestration seems to be the first D on the second list.
Comment on: Exclusive: Francis criticises nurse leadership
“There is a need to strengthen the voice of nursing so that what nurses need in their workplace to do their job effectively for patients is articulated better and stronger,” Does anyone think Francis is wrong about that? Anonymous | 18-May-2013 2:15 pm It might be normal, but it isn't a debate: a proper debate involves people supporting different beliefs - this is more a case of 'we don't ourselves believe what we are saying to you' when nurses, and other HCPs, become very defensive about ctiticism.
Comment on: Exclusive: Francis criticises nurse leadership
Has anyone noticed the tension and contradictions between things like Anonymous | 14-May-2013 11:43 am, where a nurse wasn't happy with the treatment of a relative, and the posts by other HCPs who admit things are often a lot less than acceptable, and the way that when a criticism comes from a lay source HCPs frequently come out with "It isn't like that" or "You don't know what you are talking about"?
Comment on: One in four deterred from raising concerns
Anonymous | 1-May-2013 6:12 pm 'I would like to know what nurses think we should be doing, if they are not prepared to act.' Erm - perhaps I'm being a bit simple, as usual, but: if nurses are not prepared to act, isn't it pretty irrelevant what they think they should be doing (the answer, apparently, being 'nothing' - which follows from the inaction) ?
Comment on: Resources for community clinics must match those of the hospital
I thought community care was supposed to be the future?
Comment on: Should patients be involved in nurses’ appraisals?
Patients will not be primarily providing feedback about clinical competence, I assume - more about things like 'overall attitude', etc: and remember that it was the patients and relatives who 'blew the whistle' (largely not listened to by the professionals and managers) at Mid Staffs, and resulted in the Francis Inquiry.
