Sunday Times view of nurses

[cheshirecat]

Anybody read todays Sunday Times? Their view of nurses:

1. We are slags - yes, they actually used that word to describe how we look.

2. We all earn over £30,000 a year.

3. We don't actually do any nursing (especially cleaning), we just run around pretending to be junior doctors.

4. We never wash our hands.

5. We do not care what happens to our patients, and can't be bothered to do anything at all.

I had expected to read a well researched report when I started to read the atricle, but as usual whoever wrote it didn't bother to do any reasearch at all.

Ah well, it must be NURSE BASHING WEEK again.:o:o

[nightmare, RN]

Here is link to article.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article2652761.ece

as usual all nurse are lumped in with the "bad" ones.We are not all alike:angryfire

just noticed that the journalist who wrote this is also a fiction writer!!Sadly however not all that she is writing about is fiction!

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

Wow, what a horrid article! And quite personal. I have always imagined that the NHS was underfunded and overburdened. I guess "slags" are an easier target.

[nightmare, RN]

If we did this in the private sector then we would be shut down.We are regulated by the Care commission and twice yearly checks are carried out.I had reason to see the workings of my local NHS hospital a few years ago and was,quite frankly, appalled by some of their practices!All the nurse would take their break at the same time in a staff room which had no call system.The sitting room for the residents had no call system either and on one occasion a patient fell and broke a hip and no one was able-bodied enough to get help,she fell because the chair she was sitting in was unsafe.They all knew it was unsafe but no one thought to remove it!Some of their nursing practices were also questionable as well,things that we just would not get away with.

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

Wow, then, what a horrid environment!

[RGN1]

Well there is a link to have your say - so I did - but whether it'll appear or not I've no idea!!

[psalm, RN]

...the "reporter" sure seems to "know of" nurses too busy, blah blah blah to do whatever. She didn't mention community-acquired MRSA or C-Diff from visitors or even ambulatory patients who should know to wash hands. I realize there are some staff who are not meticulous about hand-washing and cleaning up, but they are a minority.

Keep giving the great care you give, be a role model for others and professionally prove Martin wrong...at least where you are.

[StNeotser, ASN, RN]

This is one of about five articles I've read in the last week in the British press that slam nursing. Not one of the journalists seems to have done any research - it's all anecdotal on the one time they visited their Aunt Millie in hospital. Very lazy and I am surprised that they get paid for this rubbish.

I wish the public would read this instead:

http://militantmedicalnurse.blogspot.com/2007/10/dear-doctor.html

[scattycarrot, BSN, RN]

I just replied to that article as well. We will see if it appears. I don't know about you but I am getting really fed up with being constantly bashed by the media and I am sick of hearing anecdotes from retired nurses who 'did things properly in their day'.....yawn.

[scattycarrot, BSN, RN]

Ha! They printed my response! (Im Victoria from Portsmouth).

[Billy Shears]

Media driven healthcare. Couldn't dream it. Beam me up Scotters. :)

[ZippyGBR, BSN, RN]

i wonder what some of the many retired Nurses who wax lyrical on how things were done in their day would cope with the acuity of modern Inpatient care...