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News Politics Health policy Anger over peer's 'sex and booze' nurses slur Matthew Taylor The Guardian, Saturday March 1 2008 Article history - Contact us A Tory peer who branded nurses as "grubby,...
As a long-standing Plastics trained nurse one favorite joke of the plastic surgeons was: Q: What is the definition of a holistic orthopod? A: He considers the WHOLE
After losing my chosen job in Plastics because my ward got shut down and trying other surgical posts I got a relevation of sorts last night. I was emptying a bedpan at the time and the thought struck...
What interests me is why anyone thinks nursing holds the moral high ground, Why would it? It is just a job. A dirty one at that. It does not give you moral superiority for liking it. I nursed for 12...
The specialist Plastics ward I had worked on for the last 7 years was recently shut down by the NHS Trust I work for (I'm in the UK) and the only alternative post I was offered was in critical care...
The end of this sorry episode is as follows. I was moved back to the surgical wards at the new site. I'm doing fine there as I love surgical nursing and it really does not matter which speciality it...
My Trust recently moved the ward I had worked on for 7 years, a specialist plastic surgery unit, out of its original Middlesex location to an inner London site 12 miles away. 12 miles dosen't sound...
Well our legal code of conduct allows the delegation of some tasks "as long as the practioner is satisied as to the competence of the delagatee". I am so satisfied, I do not suggest that the HCA...
What a lot of nonsense! Funny how all Europe does not run around with infected memberes at all turns. Circumcision is a superstition. No more and no less. It is an entirely unnecasary
And I suggest you are slightly less snotty. All the HCA"S of my exprience can not only read but see as well. They are no more likely to confuse Mr Smith with Mr Jones than I am. It is pefectly legal...
This happened about three months ago.. On night duty I often carry the emergency bleep as the senior nurse on duty. One night one of the Oncology wards called me urgently needing an antibiotic...
It now occurs to me that the HCA is miles away from an untrained aide. HCA's in the UK do everything including taking bloods, putting in Venflons, taking obs and doing BM's Perhaps you mean the...
And how exactly does the paracetamol tablet change from your putting it in a pot and telling the HCA to give it to Mr Smith?. It is perfectly safe to do so. As long as you can read a drug chart and...
Rubbish. I often give routine oral meds to our HCA's If you have done your job properly are 100% sure that your practice is safe then what harm can come from it? A HCA giving a Paracetamol tablet...
I see no reason at all why a HCA cannot administer a medicine properly checked by a staff nurse. If you, as a qualified nurse have not correctly checked the contraindications, interactions and safety...
Nurset1981 is talking rubbish. I'd trust our wonderful, indispensable HCA's with anything short of a intubation. HCA's aren't stupid. As a student I learned more from them than I did from the...