brianbooth

brianbooth RN

Parkinson's, stroke. elderly care rehab

I can be a bit grumpy about where my beloved nursing is heading

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  1. Well done! Nothing happened

    brianbooth replied to brianbooth's topic in General Nursing

    'Catch them doing something right...' Why have I never heard that before?

  2. Well done! Nothing happened

    brianbooth replied to brianbooth's topic in General Nursing

    There's a popular saying over here: 'if Florence Nightingale had been Fred Nightingale, it would have been a whole different ball

  3. Well done! Nothing happened

    brianbooth replied to brianbooth's topic in General Nursing

    A thought just came to me, remembering a past potentially newsworthy problem with a mentally ill relative, which we sorted out before it escalated into a siege. Not our problem, some said; others...

  4. Hospital will not hire smokers

    brianbooth replied to BSNbeauty's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I'm not going to come down on one side or the other of this debate. I'll just offer this: Why do so many nurses smoke? Why, in the UK, were we the last 'profession' to go under 50% smokers? I'd...

  5. What can US and UK nurses learn from each other?

    brianbooth posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've been an Allnurses reader for too many years to recall; it was a recent post that pushed me into registering for the right to write: it was a very well-written article concerning a list of demands...

  6. What can US and UK nurses learn from each other?

    brianbooth replied to brianbooth's topic in General Nursing

    Tiffy -Thanks for the clarification. In all parts of the UK except Scotland, the title for a female nurse who has risen above the staff nurse level is 'sister' (a legacy of the time when hospitals...

  7. What can US and UK nurses learn from each other?

    brianbooth replied to brianbooth's topic in General Nursing

    Charge nurses should not have to take patients unless there is a true emergency Charge nurses are needed to control patient flow, triage admissions and assign them to rooms, handle patient/family...