Dr Agooojongybongo just called, could you bring in a scalpel this afternoon please?
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Dr Agooojongybongo just called, could you bring in a scalpel this afternoon please?
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Because you have your own nice toiletries at home Id much rather use those than scabby cheap awful soap.
Because 99.9% of nurses deeply care about their patients why else would you want to nurse.
If you read the thread properly and saw what a few others put, you will see I am not referring to that group of people. I an talking about those people that are in more than 2-3 days and have hordes of visitors each day.
Of course there is logic behind it. Its about stopping cross contamination. You sound like the sort of person who uses the same cloth to clean the toilet and then the kitchen with.
That wasn't in the new super duper QE it was one in Solihull.
I couldn't believe it when some admin that deals with these kind of things came out with so much BS I nearly peed myself.
You see I had tests 3 weeks before the op and then again on the day of the op in the ward all was clear.
The next day my wound looked like something out of a aliens film.
Do these hoards of people live with them? Do they have access to their toiletries?
As a nurse I think you should concentrate on helping people rather than judging them.
If you include old people & children in stats regarding tax you are going to get silly results.
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They could go and by their friend/relative the basics? at least soap and shampoo and a comb I am saying a lot of patients comment that no one will bring anything in for them and they dislike hospital stuff. Also actually nurses do really care they usually feel sorry for patients whose rels wont bring stuff in and may buy some themselves out of their own money for patients.
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I'm not saying you didn't get an HAI, just that at our Trust we haven't had one claim for a patient getting a HAI.
In fact we've just gone 12 months MRSA free before getting our first MRSA case.
This, having worked as an HCA over a summer, the 2 nurses and me in A&E majors is pretty wrong, but hey plenty of managers so it's ok
this is what needs sorting and will solve the problems, more damn nursing staff, the Tories have actually cut nurses it's crazyI tell all my friends and family to have the tests before a OP and insist on tests after just in case.
The way complaints tried to worm their way out of it was a joke.
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I can tell you for fact that at my Trust complaints are taken very seriously and are followed through in great detail. I know because they are part of my department and of course sometimes complaints lead to clinical negligence claims. I see the fine investigative work that has gone into replying to a complaint and the reports from clinicians and sometimes they hold their hands up.
Of course if you aren't satisfied with how they treated you then there are plenty of Solicitors out there.
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This, having worked as an HCA over a summer, the 2 nurses and me in A&E majors is pretty wrong, but hey plenty of managers so it's ok
Precisely! there needs to be far more money invested in hiring nurses we are chronically short staffed its dangerous.
That we agree on.
Don't get me wrong earlier, I wasn't suggesting increasing the burden on the staff when they don't have the time - just that funding is increased to enable them to have the time to provide these "nice to have" elements of personal care.
This is why I believe anyone coming to live in the UK should have health insurance for the first 6 years for all family members.
I recently had a cyst removed from my hand, the surgeon wanted me to have a general anesthetic due to the location, but I opted for a local, and the nurses from the moment I went into the waiting room to the moment I walked out were nothing short of amazing, making sure I had everything (tea, drinks, biscuits).
Your right in that, for the 4 or so hours I was in the hospitals care, I actually felt like people did care. So thankyou
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I agree we need a lot more funding.
That would be a brilliant idea. I agree with you on that.
What a nonsensical thing to say. You cannot possibly quantify any such figure.
Five years would make more sense, given that this is the period for naturalisation, but yes it's a good idea.
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Well I will tell you this there are a rare rare few bad nurses to the majority that are fantastic.
Hyperbolic opinion again, nothing more.
To actually answer you question though, if I knew I were going into hospital I would take items in. And as for visitors I'd much rather not have any but I guess they would bring me some items in.
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