[joeysteele]

Nurses are stretched too far and are given far too many patients to attend to. The problem lies with the Managers of Hospitals,there are far too many staff attached to them instead of hands on Nursing staff.
Of course mistakes will be made and shouldn't happen but there is not much you can do if you only have 4 Nurses on a ward where there are between 35 and 40 Patients.

I have 6 Cousins who are Nurses and they are totally shattered by the time their shift ends,that is if they get finished in time.
This Hospital seemed to have a problem that ended up running right through it almost, no doubt other Hospitals will have had similar problems for a time too.

Nurses are given a hard time when things like this occur but what we don't see and hear about are the reprimands and rotten attitude towards Nurses for not getting other duties done and paperwork filled in corectly and handovers done to perfection.
Thingscan and do get overlooked because in a large number of Hospitals Nurses are greatly overstretched.

As in any profession,of course, there will be Nurses who maybe should not have chosen that as a career but overall, they deserve support and also a lot more Nurses are needed as well as a large reduction as to ratio of Nurses to Patients.

That is something the Managers have to deal with, if it fails to happen they they have failed and everyone of them and their attached staff,who in fact contribute near nothing and usually absolutely nothing as to hands on care, should be dismissed when problems such as at Stafford are proven as they have been.