[user104658]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

A lot of nurses do 10 and 12hr shifts... god I hope I get in this year

My dad (now retired) was a psychiatric nurse for 25 years, I remember him occasionally doing what he called the "super shift"... Basically, there was a completely uncontrollable psychotic teenage boy who needed 3 male staff, 24/7, just to stop him from bashing anyone's head in (or his own...). He used to come home with chunks of hair missing, black eyes, covered in vomit... etc... Anyway, people who volunteered for such madness got double time, and he got double time Sundays. So sometimes he would do a 14 hour Sunday shift at 4x pay rate, earning over £100 an hour (so nearly £1.5k for one shift).

Crazy really. How much mist it have been costing every year to care for that boy...

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

My dad (now retired) was a psychiatric nurse for 25 years, I remember him occasionally doing what he called the "super shift"... Basically, there was a completely uncontrollable psychotic teenage boy who needed 3 male staff, 24/7, just to stop him from bashing anyone's head in (or his own...). He used to come home with chunks of hair missing, black eyes, covered in vomit... etc... Anyway, people who volunteered for such madness got double time, and he got double time Sundays. So sometimes he would do a 14 hour Sunday shift at 4x pay rate, earning over £100 an hour (so nearly £1.5k for one shift).

Crazy really. How much mist it have been costing every year to care for that boy...

Was there a point to this... what are you saying some people don't deserve care?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Was there a point to this... what are you saying some people don't deserve care?

No?