tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post2361692352764498109..comments2024-03-29T05:15:40.793-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: "Socialized medicine will be GREAT! Just look atFirehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-61772954562921664752010-03-07T15:15:13.950-08:002010-03-07T15:15:13.950-08:00Yeah, I remember reading about those cases.
A goo...Yeah, I remember reading about those cases.<br /><br />A good nurse is like a good teacher: a treasure to be cherished. Unfortunately, a lot of doctors and a lot of staff pukes seem to think it's just fine to crap all over them. I've been told by some friends in the medical field that it's improved here in the US over the last ten years or so; damn good thing.<br /><br />And, as you say, the NHS can put an idiot in a position where they cause terrible harm and then refuse to take any real responsibility for it. Or hold the idiot responsible.Firehandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-33003561618975726822010-03-07T11:46:08.121-08:002010-03-07T11:46:08.121-08:00I dated a nurse for a lot of years, they were trea...I dated a nurse for a lot of years, they were treated like shit by the admin staff and janitors. Nurses had to park in a car park several hundred yards from the buildings, the road was un lit and passed through woods, so coming off shift at 10pm - Yep, you got it, assaults and attempted rapes, allong with cars stolen. The janitors thought it was a great laugh to clamp any nurse who parked near a building, even if they knew fine well that the person whose name was on the place was on holiday.<br /><br />Several of her colleagues careers were ended in their mid 20s by back injuries due to undermanning and unsafe lifting practices (two women trying to lift a 20 stone patient who has alzhiemers).<br /><br />Another colleague suffered serious sexual assault and attempted rape when a psychiatric patient got out of a supposedly secure ward and into her room in the nurses home.<br /><br />The NHS was and maybe still is exempt from all health and safety at work and hygeine legislation. The stock response whenever assault or injury took place was for the hospital admin to warn the nurse to keep her gob shut, or else!<br /><br />That said. <br />Have you heard about this monster from the 1990s?<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_Allitt<br /><br />Or these, from the same time period?<br />http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/31/world/vienna-nurse-s-aides-convicted-of-killing-patients.html?pagewanted=1Keithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-74261588699549231702010-03-07T08:10:30.920-08:002010-03-07T08:10:30.920-08:00This article is a cruel disservice to the nurses. ...This article is a cruel disservice to the nurses. The accounts I've read say that most of the proper nurses have been fired and replaced with "nurses" -- badly trained warm bodies hired to pad out the personnel count. The remaining proper nurses are overworked and desperate about the patients they are forced to neglect. In a few years they will burn out and then the body count will really start to rise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com