[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Livia

Thanks Kaz... thought I was on my own here. My mother has district nurses visit... the last time I said on here that maybe one nurse could do more than one thing and save the others a visit, it was suggested by a forum member that my family should maybe look at doing more. This place is insane sometimes.

Unsurprisingly that would be me...

You said 'she'll be visited by a district nurse in the morning to do one procedure and another in the afternoon to do something else.'

I stated that was a fantastic level of care and suggested that if you were concerned and wished to free up a visit for someone else you could perhaps arrange between the family to check on her.

It had been assessed that she required assistance in the morning and again in the afternoon, how then can all of her care needs be delivered in one visit?

What's wrong with that? :/

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Unsurprisingly that would be me...

You said 'she'll be visited by a district nurse in the morning to do one procedure and another in the afternoon to do something else.'

I stated that was a fantastic level of care and suggested that if you were concerned and wished to free up a visit for someone else you could perhaps arrange between the family to check on her.

It had been assessed that she required assistance in the morning and again in the afternoon, how then can all of her care needs be delivered in one visit?

What's wrong with that? :/

I'll tell you what's wrong with that.

You don't know anything about my mother's problems and yet your comment suggests her family are not doing enough. My father was a paramedic and already does loads for her. If it was something her family could do we wouldn't need a nurse. Like it may be your business.

So despite knowing next to nothing about it and yet you felt compelled stick your oar into it and suggest we were a drain on the NHS by not doing our bit.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Livia

I'll tell you what's wrong with that.

You don't know anything about my mother's problems and yet your comment suggests her family are not doing enough. My father was a paramedic and already does loads for her. If it was something her family could do we wouldn't need a nurse. Like it may be your business.

So despite knowing next to nothing about it and yet you felt compelled stick your oar into it and suggest we were a drain on the NHS by not doing our bit.

My comment suggests nothing of the kind, you chose to include your experience in the thread therefore it becomes part of the wider debate.

If you feel that sending a nurse twice a day a drain on resources as you previously stated then that would be one solution wouldn't it?

Like you say if it was something that family could do they wouldn't send a nurse, and similarly if it was something that only needed tending to once they would only send her once.

[smudgie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

My comment suggests nothing of the kind, you chose to include your experience in the thread therefore it becomes part of the wider debate.

If you feel that sending a nurse twice a day a drain on resources as you previously stated then that would be one solution wouldn't it?

Like you say if it was something that family could do they wouldn't send a nurse, and similarly if it was something that only needed tending to once they would only send her once.

Try thinking outsideof the box Kizzy, some patients have multi illnesses and need two or even more things doing.
One nurses visit would save time and money if all the treatment was administered at the same time, different altogether than a patient needing the same thing doing twice.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by smudgie

Try thinking outsideof the box Kizzy, some patients have multi illnesses and need two or even more things doing.
One nurses visit would save time and money if all the treatment was administered at the same time, different altogether than a patient needing the same thing doing twice.

I have thank you, I don't want to pry into the specifics here but there are many things that can't be done in one visit. One may be a nurse and the other a nurse practitioner?

Honestly I have never heard of anyone complain their ill relative gets too much care.. :/

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

I have thank you, I don't want to pry into the specifics here but there are many things that can't be done in one visit. One may be a nurse and the other a nurse practitioner?

Honestly I have never heard of anyone complain their ill relative gets too much care.. :/

You don't need the specifics and even if you had them you'd still try to spin it so you're right and I'm wrong. The nurses themselves get fed up with it because they're sent to do stuff that the nurse who attended that morning could have done. Anyhoo it was one comment I made that you latched on to as usual and here we are still.... I won't be explaining this again, even when you reply. And you will....

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Livia

You don't need the specifics and even if you had them you'd still try to spin it so you're right and I'm wrong. The nurses themselves get fed up with it because they're sent to do stuff that the nurse who attended that morning could have done. Anyhoo it was one comment I made that you latched on to as usual and here we are still.... I won't be explaining this again, even when you reply. And you will....

I wouldn't.

Again if her doctor had felt 1 visit sufficient that is what she would get, it was you who brought this anecdote from another thread btw.
' I said on here that maybe one nurse could do more than one thing and save the others a visit'

I note it has now changed from I said to they said, no matter as you say the issue has been discussed to death.