Patients go hungary as busy nurses have no time to feed them.
Telegraph Watch
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It’s a long way to go to get a nurse to help you eat your hospital food.
It’s not a question of “time” or “resources”. It’s the pseudo-professionalisation of nursing that has lead to this dire situation. Nurses regard feeding patients as beneath them. “That’s the auxiliary’s job”, I was told by a nurse (who, btw, was reading a women’s magazine at the nursing ‘station’) when I asked why my 93-year old had not been fed.
The NHS is unreformable. Scrap it. -
“It is unacceptable if patients are not getting the help they need to eat or drink. Nurses desperately want to be able to give the standards of care they were trained to give but they need the support and resources to do so. Most importantly, they need to be given the time to care.”
Rubbish. Last time I had to be in hospital, there always seem to be plenty of nurses hanging around the “nurses station” having a chin wag.
Then again, give people money for nothing and what do you expect?
To be fair, we have had some good treatment at times under the NHS. The problem is that it like so much public service, it relies on the goodwill of individuals and managers wanting to do a good job, and if they don’t, it doesn’t get addressed. -
Hmm… Leaves more room for the Hungarys to go Britain, I suppose. 😉
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Inotice that nurses are never too busy helping patients or seeing that the elderly eat properly and so leave the paperwork undone. Or are unable to attend meetings, diversity workshops are any of the other the day in the State sector.
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When I was a nurse on a medical ward I _didn’t_ hang around chatting, I did what I was supposed to – wash them, feed them, give them pills and write about it all.
And there wasn’t enough time in the day.
I ran around like a blue-arsed fly and still couldn’t give the care that I wanted to give.
No, to be fair there are a lot of lazy nurses out there, but don’t tar us all with the same brush.
And the reason why we were never too busy to do paperwork was because it was doing the paperwork that kept you your job, if you didn’t feed the patient on the odd occasion then no-one seemed to mind.
All about evidence you see.
It’s shit, it’s a pain, but until you change the whole culture it won’t get any better.
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