Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHS
rebecca cooper
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Comment on: Our students’ dedication is a credit to the profession
im a 2nd year nursing student, and i have had some wonderfull mentors and some truly horendus ones, i wonder why nurses who so clearly dont want to take on a student do the mentorship qualification (pay?) and in refrence to the superneumery status? what a joke! i have lost count of the number of times ive heared "were very short staffed but its ok we have 2 students on" im so tired of nurses complaning endlesly about the amout work they have to do, wich would make any sain person quit, so much is expected and the new intatives sutch as relecing time to care no matter how well intended are met with hostilaty because it meens more time + paperwork, my driving aspirations are (of course along with the desire to care for people that is so integral to this profession), to change the system. i realise how arrogent that must sound, what i meen is the system does not work half as well as it could everyone knows it, but unless we inspire an attitude that impowers our nursing staff from the ground up were looking at chaos. we are probably the ONLY people who can realy improve our working conditions and definatly the only people who want to. at a time in my first year one of those truly golden nurses took a second to reminde me that while we are "coping" the patients arnt getting the best care we can give because we havent got the energy left to give it. so i intend to get my head down qualify, then make as much noise as i need to, to change the small things that will make a big diffrence on the ward (like making sure my 30 bed ward has more than 2 drip stands). appolagies for the rant but realising im not the only student facing thease problems tells me the attitude of some nurses towards students has to change, soon were gonna be the nurses with students of our own my mesage to my future students "its hell but this job makes me compleate i couldent imagin doing anything els" finde the strength fellow students lets make our work something to be proud of stop "coping" and start caring! xx
