Tag Archives: nursing

Self awareness or self doubt?

July 14, 2008 – 9:20 pm

I thought it was well past due that I write a post for Mental Nurse, what will all the intellectual discussions going on, it was about time for a pile of waffle from myself. *ahem*
As you may or may not be aware, I am in my final year as a student and will be a [...]

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Why have nurses?

July 2, 2008 – 5:36 pm

Everything’s far too affable and agreeable here. So, cat, meet pigeons :
Why have nurses in mental health?
Really, stop and think for a moment. Maybe on in-patient units, where arguably nursing may still have a role for some patients some of the time (but is it RMN stuff?), some nurses may be [...]

By TheShrink | Posted in Outright Waffle | Also tagged , | Comments (35)

Doctors cure, nurses care?

June 8, 2008 – 10:05 pm

Seaneen has written an interesting and very thoughtful piece giving her relative views on psychiatrists and mental health nurses. Seaneen prefers the nurses to the doctors, and feels more understood by them.
The debate that follows in the comments thread is also quite interesting. Some people agree with Seaneen. Others report the opposite - that they’ve [...]

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Join The Dark Side …

May 18, 2008 – 1:45 pm

Looking for videos of youth subculture on YouTube, frankly alarming, and found this instead.
A Mental Production

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Happy Nurses Day!

May 12, 2008 – 1:24 pm

Yes, it’s Nurses Day. Woohoo! Did you get any presents? The decorations are up in our office

And the partying never stops

So what are your Nurses Day resolutions?

By beakie | Posted in Passing Connection To Work | Comments (7)

Cut the paperwork

April 28, 2008 – 10:57 pm

Yesterday I drew attention to this news report.
Eight out of 10 nurses say they have left work distressed because they have been unable to treat patients with the dignity they deserve, a poll suggests.
Today, a different poll of nurses revealed another concern.
A poll of 1,752 nurses found that a fifth of the time of a [...]

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A little bit of dignity

April 27, 2008 – 9:51 am

This report from the BBC today.
Eight out of 10 nurses say they have left work distressed because they have been unable to treat patients with the dignity they deserve, a poll suggests.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) poll of more than 2,000 UK nurses cited washing and privacy as key issues.

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Can nurses teach doctors?

April 13, 2008 – 2:18 pm

All the newly qualified nurse is fit to do is carry a clipboard, unthinkably follow a protocol and generally piss everyone off. And they are letting these ridiculous people “teach” (sic) medical students.
Dr Crippen
Ah, Dr Crippen, you do seem to love us so at the moment.
Anyway, this comment got me thinking. Is it appropriate for [...]

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‘Innappropriate’ nursing words

April 13, 2008 – 12:26 pm

(Guest post by Bruce)
I attended a PSTS training day the other (jolly good fun it was too). Towards the end of the course the speaker showed a slide containing a list of words the Healthcare Commisson had found in various types of nursing documentation and considered innappropriate or unsuitable. This list [...]

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Extended Roles vs Expanded Roles

April 3, 2008 – 8:10 pm

Wow, E’s post on the NurseQuack debate seems to have stirred up a hornet’s nest. One response from NHS Blog Doctor and two from Dr Rant. Personally, I never even thought it was a particularly pro-NurseQuack post.
I do wonder though, if there’s a middle ground to the NurseQuack debate that’s being left unexplored by two [...]

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Unskilled and Unaware of it?

April 2, 2008 – 8:39 am

Dr Crippen (Fat Lazy Male Nurse 31/03/08) is fond of stating that Nurses “Don’t know what they don’t know” and using this as an argument against extended roles for nurses and other health care professionals. Nurse practitioners and Emergency care practitioners are, according to Dr C, acting outside their area of competence and [...]

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The Drugs are Better Than Fairy Dust (3): Quacktitioner Alert!

March 29, 2008 – 11:02 am

I don’t normally join in the shrieks of “quacktitioner” that some of the other health blogs are so fond of, but today I’m going to make an exception. I was reading through this article on Comment is Free by Madeleine Bunting writing in defence of complimentary therapies. The article itself is (in my opinion) a [...]

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Promiscuous, sex-fixated nurses

March 2, 2008 – 6:52 pm

Thanks to News From Unscheduled Care for pointing out this news story.
Almost one in 10 nurses think starting a relationship with one of their patients is acceptable while one in six said they knew of a colleague who had a sexual relationship with a patient they were looking after.
The findings, published by the Nursing Times, [...]

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Futurama

February 27, 2008 – 7:47 am

A few weeks ago, I met up with a student - we’ll call her Mavis - for a tutorial prior to an exam. Nothing unusual in that, pretty standard university lecturer activity. Except Mavis was a third year, who should have qualified last September but was still resitting an exam she had already [...]

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A matter of degree

February 20, 2008 – 7:34 pm

Student nurse The Oracle has pointed out some charming comments from the Daily Mail website.
Nurses in this country are the most rude, militant, chip of the shoulder bunch of wingers you could ever need. The problem is now they are required to do a useless degree instead of learning their primary function which is to [...]

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