Just a small anecdote that happened when working at the National Neurological hospital in central London - it's the most prestigious neuro hospital in the country.
Anyway, my friend made the headlines of the local tabloids because we were both working there as temp nurses, and we'd only worked a few shifts before, but the surgeon was used to the nurses automatically getting his cup of tea, but as we were new there, had no idea. But he didn't tell me to get the tea (maybe because I was a guy) but he asked my friend (who was female) where his cup of tea was.
She politely told him she was there to fetch his tea for him.
The doctor didn't exactly complain, well, nothing official, but he did speak to the charge nurse, who did excused the temp nurses actions and had a quiet word with her.
My friend wasn't happy about this, moaned about it to her friends outside of work, one of whom happened to work in the newspaper business, and suddenly her story is on the front page of the paper.
Recently there was a sign placed on a unit that said "call the charge nurse if you would like coffee" this was posted in the doctor's dictation room. That sign didn't last long. A kuerig was placed in there for self service.
What a tempest in a teapot! Just when we thought AN was safely returned to mundane medical threads, we've rebounded back into the land of European medical marvels.
You have to admit it, his posts are pretty phenomenal.
Probably only about 30-40 shifts in my life. When you're agency nursing, you go everywhere. Wait till I share what happened the few shifts I worked in the bone marrow transplant unit - you know, the blood cancers ward (can't remember what that area is called, haematology perhaps?) anyway - that was laugh, as I had no idea what the heck was going on, but the nurses knew that, and were great, and had a really unique experience.
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Probably only about 30-40 shifts in my life. When you're agency nursing, you go everywhere. Wait till I share what happened the few shifts I worked in the bone marrow transplant unit - you know, the blood cancers ward (can't remember what that area is called, haematology perhaps?) anyway - that was laugh, as I had no idea what the heck was going on, but the nurses knew that, and were great, and had a really unique experience.
Only about 30-40 shifts ever during my 4yrs in London. It's amazing where you find yourself when temping. Wait till I tell you about the time I spent in a bone marrow unit - I can't even remember what that area of medicine is called - haematology perhaps. But don't worry, the nurses knew I knew nothing, but had me anyway, worked about a dozen shifts there. I'll tell you another time.
She probably need a hematologist if ice is that appealing.
I know, but hey, she's the one with the MD behind her name so I left that one up to her. She seemed more concerned about continuing with the ice chomping and how her dentist was going to yell at her again when she went in for her next cleaning...
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Farawyn
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Hahhahahahahaha!