Hello friends, well having recovered from what is possibly the longest bank holiday in the entire NHS things just don't get better we had to manage our poorly patients with less resources early dinners and open visiting and when the normal service was resumed again we actually realised it was much easier nursing without all the other staff around and the quieter hospital so roll on next bank holiday.
Mr Cameron has really surpassed himself this time I think he lives in another dimension or planet or something , apparently nurses don't spend enough time undertaking direct care for their patients we should do four rounds an hour and spend less time doing paperwork and more time doing patient care and contact. well David let me give you some information, we spend as much time as we can providing care and contact to our patients and relatives this is what we came into the job for unfortunately due to your government cuts and ridiculous targets we have twice as much pointless paperwork to do and not enough nursing and care staff to be as close to our patients as we wish so we would love to have the TIME to CARE but you will have to give us back the NURSES to CARE.
And Finally (or maybe not as this has been going on some time) back to the pensions debate the government have come out with yet another offer but to be frank it is not much different from the previous one and does not appear very appealing to 99percent of the health staff, the day of action caused much disruption and I have a feeling there will be more to come if this offer does not change significantly, many unions have already refused to accept the offer some like the PCS did not even agree to take the proposal to there members My union the biggest Nursing union RCN is going to ballot us the members and this time i really hope that all this noisy moaning nurses on the social network sites put there pen where there mouth is and send back there forms because i for one really do not want to still be nursing when I'm nearly 70....
A true reflection of the life, times and trials of a Nurse working in today's NHS in criminal justice , and maybe just a hint of anything else I may feel is relevant.
Tuesday 10 January 2012
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When God Created Nurses
When the Lord made Nurses He was into his sixth day of overtime.
An angel appeared and said, "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And the Lord said, "Have you read the specs on this order? A nurse has to be able to help an injured person, breathe life into a dying person, and give comfort to a family that has lost their only child and not wrinkle their uniform. They have to be able to lift 3 times their own weight, work 12 to 16 hours straight without missing a detail, console a grieving mother as they are doing CPR on a baby they know will never breathe again. They have to be in top mental condition at all times, running on too-little sleep, black coffee and half-eaten meals. And they have to have six pairs of hands.
The angel shook her head slowly and said, "Six pairs of hands...no way!" "It's not the hands that are causing me problems," said the Lord, "It's the two pairs of eyes a nurse has to have." "That's on the standard model?" asked the angel. The Lord nodded.
"One pair that does quick glances while making note of any physical changes, And another pair of eyes that can look reassuringly at a bleeding patient and say, "You'll be all right ma'am" when they know it isn't so."
"Lord," said the angel, touching his sleeve, "rest and work on this tomorrow." "I can't," said the Lord, "I already have a model that can talk to a 250 pound grieving family member whose child has been hit by a drunk driver...who, by the way, is laying in the next room uninjured, and feed a family of five on a nurse's paycheck."
The angel circled the model of the nurse very slowly, "Can it think?" she asked. "You bet," said the Lord. "It can tell you the symptoms of 100 illnesses; recite drug calculations in its sleep; intubate, defibrillate, medicate, and continue CPR nonstop until help arrives...and still it keeps its sense of humor. This nurse also has phenomenal personal control. They can deal with a multi-victim trauma, coax a frightened elderly person to unlock their door, comfort a murder victim's family, and then read in the daily paper how nurses are insensitive and uncaring and are only doing a job." Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek of the nurse.
"There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told you that you were trying to put too much into this model." "That's not a leak," said the Lord, "It's a tear." "What's the tear for?" asked the angel. "It's for bottled-up emotions, for patients they've tried in vain to save, for commitment to the hope that they will make a difference in a person's chance to survive, for life." "You're a genius," said the angel.
The Lord looked somber. "I didn't put it there," He said.