Does Anybody Care?
Naively perhaps I thought once I started blogging about poor nursing care, lack of training and unregulated Health Care Assistants I would have lots of hits and many comments. I know I have been...
View ArticleGetting the Message Out There
I’ve had to take some time out to write to a few more people and create some leaflets and business cards to attract folk to my campaign. A friend has pointed out that many of the like minded souls I’d...
View ArticleRedressing the balance
Today I went along to meet my friend the author and SRN Joan Woodcock at our local library. She was there to talk about her latest book Matron on Call the follow up to Matron Knows best. She had a good...
View ArticleTrain to Nurse – the old fashioned way!
If I were asked to reform nurse education and training in the UK this is how I would set about it. I would institute a practical nursing course run by hospitals that everybody wishing to nurse had to...
View ArticleProfessional Nurses need a Professional Uniform not Pyjamas
A frequent but general complaint from the public is on the subject of uniforms. The public do not like the fact that they cannot tell one grade of staff from another, that they can’t tell doctors from...
View ArticleApathy Kills
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View ArticlePatient, You are being processed not cared for.
Hands up anybody who knows what the Nursing Process is. When did nursing practice begin to change? My feeling is that this began with something called “the nursing process” which was imported from the...
View ArticleTo be or not to be. Is nursing more or less professional in 2012?
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View ArticleIs Nursing Sacrocanct? Are Nurses Above Criticism?
Anybody who has been following this blog will know that I don’t believe that. Yesterday I went to meet an MP who is keen to promote the issue of falling standards of care especially for the elderly and...
View ArticleHere we go again!
Once again nursing care is in the news. Anne Clwyd MP has presented her findings to Parliament about the dismal standards of nursing care throughout the UK and what has happened. Zilch, nothing, not a...
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