Sheila2155

It's such a shame. Really sorry you've suffered so long. And we all have families and mortgages and need the money. Don't feel guilty about it as we can't live without it. I'm 61 now. Can't train for anything else or I would. Roll on retirement!!

I used to love going into work but no more. It's all about paperwork and passing audits and stuff to make the trust look good. It's not patient care its a tick box project and this is why nurses are fed up. We look after paper patients. It's not what I went into nursing for. I can't afford to lose my job but the management don't care. Far cry from the profession dear old Florence wanted.

Will let you all know what happens to me. I work in a hospital in uk by the way not a residential home. Thanks for your support everyone. Don't get any at work.

Ok thanks. looks like I messed up. Think it's time to retire.

By the way lxchel I am really sorry about your experience with your Alzheimer patient. It's a horrible condition and patients like them need expert care in special I st facilities. It's not fair on the patient or on the staff who are left to deal with them on inappropriate wards.😟

Thanks I was told by my superiors that ' he's quiet was a request for help for a deteriorating patient and I ignored it. What? I don't understand what they mean.

I am new to this site and need to ask a purely hypothetical question about communication between nursing staff. I hope you can help. Okay - as a staff nurse if someone approaches you on the ward and says that a patient is 'quiet' when they have been assisted to bed for a rest - how would you interpret that comment? Thanks everyone.