[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by the truth

we hear way too much about the poor nurses and very little about the poor dead patients. we should allow patients voices to be heard and let them state their genuine opinions. The RCN is a corrupt organization that buries tens of thousands of deaths through incompetent nurses. regardless how allegedly overworked the nurses claim to be, allowing patients to starve for days and lie in faecas for longer or die from blood clots that are created by incompetent nursing practices and failure to detect the clots themselves, this is the responsibility of the individual nurses too, they cant blame everything on the system

I work 80 hours a week way more than any nurse and I still cannot use that as an excuse for negligence , incompetence or cruel treatment of people. neither should nurses, if they cant handle the job quit, before they kill more innocent people off

What you list as to negligence is totally unacceptable I agree, however that is not just down to the Nurses, Wards have Sisters who should be looking out for these things, the other problem can be the bay system in Hospitals now rather than the long ward.
Too many Patients are also out of sight for far too long periods of time.

No one would say the things you mention should happen to anyone in Hospital.
I appreciate also that you say you work 80 hours a week, however you maybe don't have at least 9/10 sick people you have to see to all through that time as well as having endless other duties.

I regret in your earlier post to hear you have been lied to by Nurses as to vital information, that too is wrong and I agree you should be angry at that.

Where I have to part company with you is that you have had it seems very bad experiences with Nursing staff, whereas I on the other hand as to a very ill friend of mine and also My Grandmother when she was in Hospital only had really good action by Nursing staff and also very compassionate too.

I still blame overall the Managers, who actually eat away at resources that could be better used to ensure more hands on care and hopefully then far less of the neglect that you have highlighted in your posts and what has been made known as to this Hospital at Stafford.