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Interesting post-script to this: our local Unison branch have distributed flyers to all departments 'clarifying' the figures. The text of the flyer says that they're doing this in response to the wave of enquiries generated by the RCN's misleading...

UK problems: 1: Country House murders. The NHS is stretched to breaking point by a constant stream of Dowager Duchesses who've fallen victim to cyanide or antique Kashmiri blowpipe darts during garden parties and soirees. 2: One's bowler hat falling ...

30 years as a British 'RGN' come September, and 24 years (I think!) since I took my US NCLEX. I intend to die in harness. Or have my consciousness uploaded into a robonurse. Either's good.

Never, ever.... do the housework naked. Because I saw so many patients in Accident and Emergency... with so many foreign objects in their orifices... ...and almost all of their stories began with the phrase: "I was doing the housework naked, and I sl...

The day was saved by swift administration of a Triple-H enema. Five minutes later, Mr Jenkins was far too scared to cough...

[ATTACH=CONFIG]26398[/ATTACH] You're upholding a proud tradition, Davey!

What were you expecting when you opened the door marked "Corporate Planning and Strategy"?

I'm a double-"other"! Full-time clinical research - which isn't one of the named options - in the field of Haematology - which also isn't one of the options. You can't pigeonhole me!

Confession time: I'm not a habitual frequenter of fora in general, and - despite the ease of AN's layout - it took me a while to realise what the whole 'like' business was about. And by that time... I'd posted on several threads! And not 'liked' an...

"Someone called for a 'Lab' report?"

It was unjustified and unnecessary because... and this is not rocket science... those nurses who wanted to pursue an academic path already had access to further development. There were already existing degree paths in nursing science. Most Trusts al...

Duly noted - I hunched over the keyboard well into the evening on Wednesday writing an Individual Submission to the Committee. Seven points: * 2015 NHS pension changes (from 'highest salary' to 'career average') led directly to the en-masse retiremen...

Hi Rosmbre, The voice of experience here: I did this for eight years, and I loved it. BUT: there are a couple of points you might want to bear in mind. First, your reluctance to join an agency. Seriously - get over it. Why? Because - I cannot stress...

There was a running joke amongst my friends and I, when we were about 12 or so. It would start with: "I saw you on your bike the other day...." "Oh aye?" "Aye. It's got nae crossbar." OR: "It's got a little basket on the front", "It's got pink tas...

Horrifying slow-motion train-wreck of a case, with no upside whatsoever. Random thoughts, in no particular order: The expert opinion of top clinicians at one of the leading children's hospitals on the planet has been flat-out ignored, simply because ...

Oops! Re-read my post in the light of your reply, and realized... yeah, I did come across a bit snippy. (My apologies, I didn't mean to.) Fingers crossed that you find a workable resolution that lets you get back into practice without any more hass...

Short version: Unlike State Boards, the British NMC has a monopoly on the regulation of Registered Nurses & Midwives, and exhibits all the abuse-of-privilege an unchallenged monopoly engenders. We'd be very well-advised to introduce Regional Boa...

You're very charitable! I'm hardly 'BBC Newsreader' material, though. If you want to hear my regional accent, have a listen to Liam Cunningham (Ser Davos) on 'Game of Thrones'.

Reminds of this joke: If the "Titanic" disaster happened in 2017: Sailor: "Abandon ship - Women and Children first!" Passenger: "Oh, excuse me, did you just make an assumption about my gender identity?"

Most mystifying one I ever saw said: "Thank you for reviewing this 50-year old gentleman, who is a member of the dark glasses brigade." I had absolutely no earthly idea what it meant to imply, and neither did anyone else who read it at the time. It ...

I volunteered (Yeah, I know) for extra duty as part of our hospital's "Winter Pressures" measures last november. It's not unusual here in the UK. It meant leaving my cushy desk and going to Acute Medical Admissions. It was full-on, non-stop, and cli...

Apologies folks - duplicate post. (Like it wasn't bad enough first time round.)

Night shift on a cardiothoracic unit - we hear moaning and retching from the ward and when we investigate, find one of our lsevere COPD patients sat up in bed, dry-heaving hard. He caught his breath enough to tell us what happenned - he'd woken up th...

Mine is a cryptic riddle - a mystery wrapped in an enigma, if you will. In dusty libraries deep in the hallowed halls of Oford & Cambridge, tweed-clad academics pore over it's meaning like a low-budget 'Da Vinci Code'. Fools... don't they realise...

Occasionally, when somebody asks me if I'm carrying the keys, I say; "Nah, it's just the way these trousers hang."