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You would think money is the same everywhere. A pound is a pound, a fiver a fiver and so on. This might be the case in other places. It does not seem to hold true for the NHS. Hospital money is Monopoly money.
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What did you think of the Panorama show then ?
I thought it was going to be about long term care of the elderly, but it was not. I have no idea what normal acute medical wards are like. Luckily I was watching the show with my chum who has extensive experience in general nursing.
Our shared opinion is some of it was shocking (basic care not being given), some of it not relevant to nurses (the stuff done by the company supplying ‘Hostesses’) , some of it almost certainly out of context. I don’t think enough time was spent examining the whole system and culture of the hospital / trust.
I will watch again and poll opinions at work.
What did you think ? Did you think it was good, bad , the right way to go about things ?
Scenario questions for newly qualified nurses. I am afraid I can’t reveal the source of this document. Answers and scoring at the end.
1. Why do most patients abscond from hospital ?
a) Zest for life and love of exercise.
b) Dislike of hospitalisation
c) God told them to do it
d) Like to watch fat staff running.
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PSYCHIATRIC staff and patients dressed up in pyjamas and set off on a Great Escape yesterday to highlight poor conditions in psychiatric wards.
The campaigners, pushing a hospital bed and chased by a giant syringe, set off from Cygnet Secure Psychiatric Hospital, at Wyke, Bradford, and intend to push the bed to Manchester over the next two days to join a demonstration.
A clinical psychologist with Bradford and District Care Trust, Dr Rufus May, said the Great Escape campaign was not aimed specifically at Cygnet, but was a general criticism of the lack of choice in psychiatric treatment.
Are these people mad ?
Panorama Special
Wed 20 Jul, 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm 60mins
Undercover Nurse: Months filming undercover as a frontline nurse reveals startling evidence of what can happen in the NHS when you are old and not a priority.Stereo Widescreen
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/panorama
I’m almost over the shame of forgetting about my dead patient. I’ll just need to make sure it never happens again.
I was reading Stupidity Costs Lives from Bloom. It reminded me of my introduction to stupidity in the work place. The following tale involve Ethel & Doris. While both Ethel & Doris were psychiatric inpatients neither of them were incapable of rational thought. Both were more than capable of understanding cause and effect and using common sense.
Well you would have thought so.
I have been at work too long. I did something awful. I need help.
Recently a patient died, she died from natural causes. I was upset, but it was expected. She was beyond suffering.
My current favourite.
Because he is like this.
The poor soul looks so lost among the oddballs in the house. The ladies would eat him alive, he is not alpha enough to compete with the remaining men.
Well apart from Derek.
Being very, very, observant I have noticed a lot of these MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY things around. Everyone seems to be wearing a wrist band or waving a flag or poster around.
Everybody, except Google, thinks poverty is a bad thing.
People seem to be going to so much effort rioting here, there and everywhere. It is the latest craze.
I was impressed by the industriousness of the campaigners. With their cheap wristbands. Until I realised something.
They were all wrong !
We should not be trying to make poverty history. We should be trying to;
MAKEPOVERTYPOPULAR
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