geminijo

i'm glad i'm not the only one stressing about essay writing! i have a 3'000 word essay to do on decision making and the trouble i have is deciding on a decision i've made and how i approached and how it ended etc. well i'm holiday this week and it's due friday. best crack on! shall i make that my decision...............the fact that i'll decided to start it lol!! :typing

Hi, this is my first post. The story is sad, but I feel maybe a little over exaggerated. I would like to think that these things don't happen but recently I have been witness to one or 2 of the complaints myself. I have had to approach the nurses involved and remind them what good nursing care involves, the reply from one of them was "But we don't have time!" At this point I did take her into the office and speak to her about prioritising and professionalism. I had a grumpy nurse for the rest of the shift but at least the patients received better care! I have to include that you can't always get patients to eat or drink. Sometimes the patient will refuse a wash and it can take a lot of time and persuasion just to get the "important" bits done. And the TED stockings! I ahve to audit how many we use, another audit, I currently have 6 audits on the ward and management do expect them to be done whilst the allocated nurse is on duty. They do make time to get them completed but all of them complain that they trained to be a nurse not an auditor! And just recently we discussed as a team the changing role of the nurse and this included all the new form filling in we now have to do because the hospital has reduced the staff in areas such as District Liason team, social work team and tissue viability team! It all falls down to us to complete the extra form filling cos the teams responsible are so depleted they don't have the resourses themselves!