These strikes....

How many times can you spectacularly miss the point?? The pay rise should come out of the massive profits that the train companies continue to make.

 

You obviously didn't read the article clearly. The subsidy to give the rail companies profits. Would have given a pay rise instead of a freeze. And investment into the infrastructure.

 

Under staff it... under pay them.... break moral ....privatisation big time then comes through the back door under the banner it's not working ....

 

Because reducing profits is never a possibility for a Sun reader.

How can you explain that foreign railways are more efficient, cheaper and pay better than ours?

Same as everything else in the country, idiots are trained to keep wages low and profits high, the government aim is unfettered wealth for the few and poverty for the many and you’re clapping along.

Tories are only worth voting for if you’re a millionaire or a fûcking moron. If you want to know which you are, just check your bank acct.

 

Just go and look at job sites advertising the vacanies. Its all there to see.

 

Just read something in an article that I didn’t know and was shocked by.
Is it true that once a Nurse has qualified they have to pay £120 a year to stay registered?

 

Yep! I pay it every year to keep my registration active.

 

Yes - professional registration fees aren't limited to health professions though, they're common, for many

 

When my mrs first registered, it was supposed to be for life. Then somewhere along the line that changed.

 

That's really surprised me.

 

It shocked me - not ! Disgraceful.

 

Can’t remember how much it was, but it was every 3 years when I was nursing. I seem to recall I had to pay 2 fees, as I was an RGN and RSCN. Once I got the job in the City I let my registration lapse. You had to do a certain amount of hours clinically and produce a portfolio to show that you were continuing to attend study days, etc, to satisfy the criteria, so it would have been pretty much impossible to stay registered. So although I’m a qualified general nurse and paediatric nurse I cannot claim to be an RGN and RSCN any more, cos I’m no longer on the register.

There was a point whereby I might have gone back into it, but by that point a spinal cord tumour had put paid to that. Amongst many medical issues I have following the surgery, I can no longer feel my hands. This was a big problem when there was an incident on the train when the London Reds were travelling up to a match. An elderly lady suddenly stood up and asked if there was a doctor or a nurse, as her husband had collapsed. My mate kindly stood up, pointed at me and said “he’s an A&E nurse”, when it was quite a few years since I’d last worked in A&E. I went up to her though and looked at her husband and saw that it was one of two things - he’d either passed out cos he was wearing too many clothes and it was packed and hot on the train, or he’d had a cardiac arrest. I felt for a pulse. No pulse, so it’s the latter. It was one of those crap old Midland Mainline trains, with a tiny gangway. I was just thinking about how the hall I was going to do CPR with no room when a young lass came up and said she was a student nurse and could she help. It was then that it dawned on me.

it dawned on me that of course I can’t feel a pulse, cos I can’t feel my fingers!! I explained about my hands and asked her to feel for a pulse and she said it was racing away. He slowly started to come round and we took a few layers off him, removed his tie, etc. I then had an argument with the train guard, who told me she was in charge of the train and he needs moving to first class immediately, where there’s more room and it’s not as hot, so I firmly said I was in charge of the patient and he’s not standing up and moving anywhere until he had come round a bit more, otherwise he’d just collapse. Eventually he came round and we took him to first class, whereby my mate gallantly said he’d sit with them to make sure he was okay. So the sod dropped me in it and then bagged a first class seat the rest of the way! What’s more, when the couple left the train they thanked him profusely for his help!

 

I have to revalidate every 3 years to keep my registration as you mention. Nurse isn't my job title anymore but for my role now i need my PIN as a condition of employment. As I'm doing 1:1 work all the time it is quite easy to keep it.

 

My employer reimburses me for mine as a business expense. I’m guessing the NHS don’t?

 

Can you claim it back?

 

No, it comes out of my pocket. I can get some tax relief from HMRC for it but it isn't loads.

 

My partner is a midwife. She works 10-11 hour shifts sometimes and doesn't get a break, ends up shovelling a sandwich in at her desk whilst working. Can barely go to the toilet, as there's no-one to relieve her from her patients. The conditions are abhorrent. But because almost anyone that's a midwife, a nurse etc do the job because they love to help and care for people, the culture is they just don't take the break as they don't want to leave people. It's a toxic culture built upon being underpaid, understaffed, unappreciated by everyone bar patients. She'd get out but what does she do? She's been a midwife all her working life, she can't just go and earn similar money easily elsewhere, else she would.

It makes me angry how she is effectively mistreated at work. She even ends up catching up with things on her days off, she was up at 6.30am on the phone on her day off last week handing over to another midwife that had up doing admin since 4.30. And she's retired and returned! It's a joke.

 

Yeah I know lots that charge just surprised that a Nurse in the NHS has to.
I can understand private Nurses to try to maintain standards etc.