My wife is in hospital having had a manky ovary removed. Are nursing staff a) Very busy therefore unable to follow a simple request within two days even though they said they fucking would, or b) ignorant cunts or c) vindictive cunts who are out to cause as much pain as possible, or d) something else? I am so pissed. Apologies to those nursey people who are actually in it for the caring aspect of the job.
My recent experiences with hospitals are that nursing staff are generally pretty fried out, and seem to lack any sense of care for their charges. There are the very odd exceptions to this, who highlight exactly how poor the rest are. -- Dan L Too much time to think, too little to do. http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/ 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7) X-FOT#000 DIAABTCOD #26 BOMB#18 (slow) OMF#11
Nurses, caring, you must be fucking joking. The probable answer is d, though Obs/Gynae tend to fall into a, b, and c as well. There has been a move over the last 10 years to reduce the amount of staff on wards which has happened. Over the past 5 years or so, there has been the pressure to cut waiting lists which has increased the workload for *everyone* in the hospital. Ward nurses tend to be exeptionally busy, but that doesn't stop them from not doing their job. -- Nursey RN ALS & APLS Provider MIRTTH#6 IbW#09 4#COFF EFFA MOP#1 Honda CBF600 ABS (nursey at ukrm dot net) UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/
Thanks, both. Now I'm sober again and have thought about it, what I wrote last night still stands. My missus hadn't eaten anything at all for 48 hours because she was told she could have nothing but sips of water. It was only when the afternoon tea trolley was brought round and the Polish girl asked her if she wanted anything that it was discovered "Oh, yes, she can eat". I'm sure nobody would have told her otherwise. While I was there yesterday, for six hours, not one fucker even popped their head into the room to just ask if she was ok. The call buzzers are answered after about ten minutes on average yet every time I wandered up to the nurses station to ask them something there's always three or four of them sitting there. The sour faced grolleys ignore you for a minute while they're yacking and don't stop until you get close enough to join in! Whinging about not getting their £250 bonus yet on one occasion, they were. Me: "My wife's had her morphine pump removed but her drip has been left un-taped and hanging so she has to hold it or it'll pull the canula out. Do you have any tape handy?" Nurse: "Oh yes, I was going to do that..." Me: "Half an hour ago" Nurse: "Mmm. Um... <Finds a roll of Micropore, tears off a short length and hands it to me> Here you go". Me: " " Anyway... if they're really busy I apologise to them and sympathise, if not then they're all cunts. There was one highlight - an Irish nurse called Tess who works nights. "Feck"ing all over the place, she was. If she was ginger I'd think she was put there as a wind up. Brilliant.
My wife was medical secretary at Stoke Mandeville and sometimes she would come home crying because of the abuse she had received over the phone from irate parents, convinced that their little Jonny is the only kid in the world waiting to have its ears messed with. The NHS was on its knees then (5 years ago). -- -- Paul. CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird (Buen mueble de patio) And a pushbike of some sort. BOTAFOT #4 BOTAFOF #30 MRO #24 OMF #15 UKRMMA #30 Ovejas y buitres: http://obscuredomainname.org
TBH a good earbashing from a **** is something you can expect in any line of work IME. Best just to ignore it. OTOH in some lines of work you're in a position to tell them to **** off, whereas in others you have to put up with it.
I've deliberately left this unsnipped because I'll just put across the other side: Nurses and doctors saved my leg after I had a big smash a few years back and though they must get tired of silly bastards crashing motorbikes they never complained about having to look after me or my parents when there was a serious chance of me being crippled or (for a couple of days) croaking it. They get shit pay, shit shifts, shit working conditions and shit patients who moan like bastards about them yet they still put the effort in when required. Some might be bordering on being useless but we'll all still be relying on them if something goes wrong and how many of us make the effort to say thanks when we go home? If you don't like it then pay BUPA and see if it's any better. This isn't directed at anyone in particular (least of all the monkey and family) but it's the government that need abusing and not the nursing staff.
yes but... Ah, so you see the problem. BUPA etc just takes the froth - there's a million things (A&E, teaching, research, GPs etc etc) that it relies on the NHS for. -- Champ ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle To email me, neal at my domain should work.
The only problem with being able to opt out is that it'd take so much money out of the NHS that it'd collapse leaving those unable to be able to afford to opt out with no medical care at all.
I'll add a *ding* to everything you've just said. Nurses at Oxford Nuffield were in general very good. There were a few PITAs who must have been on the blob, but the rest were good, and a couple always went way beyond their duty to help/make my stays as comfortable as possible. The main problem I found is if you are on strong painkillers prior to going in to hospital, they will start you on bog standard paracetamol and slowly work up when you start screaming. The only time they didn't do this was when I was on 3 x 120mG morphine a day. I just learned to take my own stash in with me and use that whilst they were ramping their own drugs up.
