patients ascoation reports

[ayla2004, ASN, RN]

http://www.nursingtimes.net/whats-new-in-nursing/acute-care/patients-association-brands-nhs-nurses-cruel-and-demeaning/5005658.article

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6092658/Cruel-and-neglectful-care-of-one-million-NHS-patients-exposed.html

okay who hasn't read /heard this imfomation.

I have torn reactions to this from m own personal experince.

At times i find ot hard to manage to balance decent nurisng care, med admistraion, and coordirting the care for a gropu of patients and do all the paperwork(can be a swear word). and yet manage my time so that i lea ve on time as overstaying a shift is seen as black mark.

Sometimes i ithink it would be easiar to be a support worker more hands on time. Not interputed whilst trying to wash and dress patients by phone calls from social workers etc. trying to get pt revied etc.

i actuially had a very good shift me and my support worker work hard to get all the pt up, washed dressed ensure they were fed toileted liased with physio talked with relativies and complete care plans and manned the ward during out ward meeting.

I hate that we push people through the system due to targets and patient flow demands. i hate that socail workers take too long to fund and help place fit and well patient in 24hour care.

I hate doing drive by nurisng were i am so pressed for time i have to run through everything and if all hells is breaking loose i don't have time.

I feel guilty that my patient do not always get the care they should but it happends, i hate when we loose dentures glasses and hearing aids. i hate when patient fall. i alos hate that at times my memory is poor espically when too many thing aer going in my head and i forget the blanket a pt has requested. We have wards in my trust with poor reputations that our staff would not want a loved placed on those wards froma medicalo/nurisng point of dvie2. however those wards have nurses running from them due to the high work load so are they staqff enough?

My ward has had a poor footing in the past however it got cour current mager before i started and we now have a good reputation it is calm clean and has good staffing. makes allk the difference.

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[StNeotser, ASN, RN]

Well, I think Claire Rayner should do a little research before she opens her big mouth.

Found this interesting;

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/militant-medical-nurse

I wonder how many years it has been since Claire Rayner was a nurse exactly?

[RGN1]

Although I have left the UK (a year now) I get sad & angry when I read the press reports about poor care in the NHS.

NO-ONE ever seems to mention the stupid workloads & huge amount of paperwork that drove me out of the UK to a better paid, less stressful environment for both me & my family.

I know there are some nurses who are not good & they truly need to be taken to task but there are a heck of a lot more nurses who are doing a darn fine job in very, very difficult circimstances, for which they are not even being paid a decent wage!!

I know that there was a hard core 2% of people whose care was dreadful & for that we should be ashamed & hospitals should be striving to make sure that no-one suffers such horrendous treatment. However, no one should lose sight of the fact that that leaves a whopping 98% of people whose care was just fine!! If a government body received a 98% satisfaction rate they'd be crowing from the top of Big Ben!!!!!

IMO they should bring back enrolled nurses (I loved my EN colleagues) & have students back working on the ward, thus increasing the number of staff able to to help with the feeding/cleaning while teaching the importance of true nursing care to the students, not just the theory. I know that's a Pandora's box but as I said it's my opinion.

No ifs or buts you have to have enough people on a ward to carry out care, period! There is no escaping that fact but the press hardly mention it or pay any attention to the real problem of poor staffing. How can 1 nurse feed & keep clean 8 doubly incontinent, inc 2 dementia patients at the same time as doing a huge drug round (often took 2 hours with all the IV meds)for 16 acute medical patients, hourly CVP readings on 1, hourly urines on another, give out breakfasts etc?? That's what I was expected to do on a daily basis where I worked once. If 2 (or more) pts soiled at the same time one would have to wait while I did another - now picture yourself as a relative visiting the pt I hadn't got round to because I was still with the other one!! Was I a poor nurse for letting her relative sit in a wet bed?? No, I just simply couldn't do all of the things I needed to do at the same time!! No wonder I left PDQ!!!

[ayla2004, ASN, RN]

or be the nurse wirh under a years experince sent to cover the late on another ward to find out she was the only trained on. that was me a fornight ago luclky they found another nurse no more experince than i to cover a s well.

the patient were all ok and we manage but i submitted an incident form.

hey we are no longer allowed any w/e bank cover and all bank needs authorised by senior staff.

yup were going be short staffed and how everything is gonna get done i don't know. just came off nights and i want to go back on seems better.