Support Nurses....

Myriddin

I see the Grinches are out in force tonight and it's not even Christmas! :xmassign:

Ivor_Pecheque

Not sure why nurses are singled out as a special case. I find it a little patronising. It's a team effort, and, as someone has already pointed out, the porters, dinner ladies and cleaners are equally as important as I am.

If the consultant phones in sick, no-one really notices, if the cleaner does, we're all goosed.

My bone of contention is not the charges per se but rather the practice of Private Parking Companies who "manage" the car parks.

Not sure what's going on at Macclesfield Hospital, but it would seem that there's a lot of irregularities here.

Guys_Dad

Ivor_Pecheque wrote: »

If the consultant phones in sick, no-one really notices, if the cleaner does, we're all goosed.
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I did in 2010. My operation was cancelled................. sorry, postponed.

Guys_Dad

Guest101 wrote: »

The highest paid people are consultants and clinical leads, who are also the worst for parking. Often taking up spaces of others and refusing to pay.

Totally without any evidence and just politics of envy kicking in.

Umkomaas

Guys_Dad wrote: »

I did in 2010. My operation was cancelled................. sorry, postponed.

You should have asked for the cleaner to do it then :rotfl:

Guys_Dad

Umkomaas wrote: »

You should have asked for the cleaner to do it then :rotfl:

I did. They said they were all right with the scrubbing up part, but they would have needed the cooks to do the carving and houskeeping department to do the stitching. And not sufficient parking available.

:rotfl::rotfl:

C_Mababejive

Ivor_Pecheque wrote: »

Not sure why nurses are singled out as a special case. I find it a little patronising. It's a team effort, and, as someone has already pointed out, the porters, dinner ladies and cleaners are equally as important as I am.

I think its all part of this media construct where they have been dubbed "Angels" as if they were Florence Nightingales band of brave ladies tending to suffering in some sepia bygone era.

Modern nursing is miles from that but lazy journalists choose to treat them as some kind of charity case which of course they are not.

They choose the job presumably because they think they want to do it. They go to Uni,get qualified, get a good secure job with transferable skills and good pay. Whats not to like?

Myriddin

C_Mababejive wrote: »

I think its all part of this media construct where they have been dubbed "Angels" as if they were Florence Nightingales band of brave ladies tending to suffering in some sepia bygone era.

Modern nursing is miles from that but lazy journalists choose to treat them as some kind of charity case which of course they are not.

They choose the job presumably because they think they want to do it. They go to Uni,get qualified, get a good secure job with transferable skills and good pay. Whats not to like?

Did someone once upset you with a suppository?

Ivor_Pecheque

I think its all part of this media construct where they have been dubbed "Angels" as if they were Florence Nightingales band of brave ladies tending to suffering in some sepia bygone era

Spot on.

A big bug bear, is that when PE took me to court (did I mention that they lost), it's likely that the care for my patients suffered as a result.

Parkrage

"My bone of contention is not the charges per se but rather the practice of Private Parking Companies who "manage" the car parks"

Exactly! I wrote to The Independent online, following their article on this, saying that NHS hospitals should be prohibited from employing PPCs; and saying that I can't see why they don't just install 'Pay on Exit' gates (as should all carparks IMO)