Post by honeypot on Sept 16, 2009 23:31:09 GMT
''I'm afraid they took my wrath a few times and I did not hesitate in insisting one of the nurses got the mop and bucket and cleaned around my father's bed at just gone midnight of the day he was admitted because of the filth. It was either that or I took samples and called in Public Health !! ''
Whilist nursing in flith is not ideal, I wonder if the nurse you spoke to first piority was mopping floors on what I presume would be an acute surgical ward.
As qualified nurses most of us try out best in often not ideal situations, I often feel if no one wants to do a job, 'deligate' to the nurse.
In the 30 years I have been qualified the amount of time patients stay in hospital has gone down so only the most ill or the ones who have the most complicted problems are left often having to care for them with the the same number or less staff and cetain tasks can only be done by qualified staff.
Some times it is difficult to pioritise. For example which would you do first?
A. Take elderly patient who walks with frame to the tiolet, she's desperate for a wee
B. Give Controlled drug to paient with pain suffering from cancer
C Check post operative observations on someone who just come back from theatre after major sugery
D Answer the phone
E. Do the drug round so the majority of the patients get their medication on time.
F Give out the meals that the porters just delivered but the ward assistant is off sick so nusing staff will have to do it.
You have 3 members of staff two of which are with a patient who has been incontinent and needs a complete bed change. You've already asked for help and been told there is no one available from another ward.
Which ever one of these you do someone will be disappionted, but maybe somebody will be quietly bleeding out.
My mother died at the begining of the year so I have seen the otherside of this. I think as we make greater demands on the NHS and there is just less money to go a round,families will end up caring for patients this already happans in Spain and Spain has a very high standard of hospital care.
I have done a few jobs but this is the only one that wakes me up and think did I really every thing I should have done today/last night and gives you a cold sweat if the phone rings when you get home from work because that means you didn't.
PS I am also a Bank Nurse and just because you work less hours does not mean you are less committed to the job
Whilist nursing in flith is not ideal, I wonder if the nurse you spoke to first piority was mopping floors on what I presume would be an acute surgical ward.
As qualified nurses most of us try out best in often not ideal situations, I often feel if no one wants to do a job, 'deligate' to the nurse.
In the 30 years I have been qualified the amount of time patients stay in hospital has gone down so only the most ill or the ones who have the most complicted problems are left often having to care for them with the the same number or less staff and cetain tasks can only be done by qualified staff.
Some times it is difficult to pioritise. For example which would you do first?
A. Take elderly patient who walks with frame to the tiolet, she's desperate for a wee
B. Give Controlled drug to paient with pain suffering from cancer
C Check post operative observations on someone who just come back from theatre after major sugery
D Answer the phone
E. Do the drug round so the majority of the patients get their medication on time.
F Give out the meals that the porters just delivered but the ward assistant is off sick so nusing staff will have to do it.
You have 3 members of staff two of which are with a patient who has been incontinent and needs a complete bed change. You've already asked for help and been told there is no one available from another ward.
Which ever one of these you do someone will be disappionted, but maybe somebody will be quietly bleeding out.
My mother died at the begining of the year so I have seen the otherside of this. I think as we make greater demands on the NHS and there is just less money to go a round,families will end up caring for patients this already happans in Spain and Spain has a very high standard of hospital care.
I have done a few jobs but this is the only one that wakes me up and think did I really every thing I should have done today/last night and gives you a cold sweat if the phone rings when you get home from work because that means you didn't.
PS I am also a Bank Nurse and just because you work less hours does not mean you are less committed to the job