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Hi, I heard this on the news this morning.Re: Nurses.
And put a lot of people on the dole. Really we don't want them cleaning just the cleaning done by the staff that are employed to do it.Re: Nurses.
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It looks like the intention is for trainee nurses to do the day to day caring of patients not general cleaning.Re: Nurses.
As with so many issues in the UK at present, the elephant in the room which no-one wants to address is the fact that a large proportion of our NHS nursing staff are not from the UK. The last time my wife was in hospital (in a large West London teaching hospital), the nursing staff were appalling and not one was UK born. She had just had a major operation and was not supposed to go to the toilet unaided but found it almost impossible to get a nurse to help her and 9 times out of 10 had to rely on a fellow patient (or me) to go with her. In many cases the nurses' grasp of English was so poor that it was almost impossible for her to communicate with them. She was prescribed morphine every four hours and once had to wait 12 hours in agony before a nurse bothered to bring her her medication. In the end, I just brought her medication in from home as the nursing staff couldn't be bothered to do their jobs (I also brought her a cooked meal in every evening as the hospital food was inedible). The doctors, anaesthetists and consultants were brilliant, but the whole hospital was let down by the nurses. It wasn't that they were overworked, as they seemed to spend most of their time chattering together around the nurses' station. I would fight to the death to protect out NHS, but we really need to look at increasing the numbers of home-grown nurses (and doctors) we produce.Re: Nurses.
I did smile at today's news. As a Midwife and as lead on the wards I always arranged for students to work with support workers. I believed this was an imperative, not simply to get down to basics but also to appreciate the role of each and every person who works in the NHS. Everyone is an important link in the care givenRe: Nurses.
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My cousin is a nurse in a large hospital in Toronto, and has worked many years in palliative care, especially with children. On one hand I cannot imagine how difficult it would be working with children who have a terminal illness... on the other hand she is exactly the type to be wonderful in that role, both for her young patients and for their families. Calm, caring, compassionate without emotional extremes.
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