Nurses in need of support

RE: Yes I would

Not all would tho. the most common reaction these days is to either verbally abuse the nurse or just give her a crack n be done.

Most dangerous profession for assaults outside the Police

 

Wouldn't believe that

The tories only interest is screwing the working class into the ground. All this nicey nicey oohh Mr geldolf stuff is just a ruse. I can't believe that Geldolf fell for it. At least there are people in the Labour Party who actually use the NHS.

 

I know

It's disgusting . You'll always be my favourite people , little buddy .(L) (L) (L) (L) (Y) (Y) (Y) (Y)

 

Lib Dem

Who knows how they'd fare if they actually got in.  Last election Tony's cronies talked the talk but yet have managed to make a major, major fcukup of it.  The Lib Dems are now the ones talking sense re the NHS but whether they could implement it any better remains to be seen.

 

Would love to see the Lib Dems in power

Just to see them crapping themselves when they have to put their policies into practice.

 

"If they had come on in sympathy with the miners " heh heh.

 

Have you been in the drugs cabinet?

 

overpaid secretaries

most of em

 

If you're not happy in your job

Get another one!

 

Were all special cases !

lets just give everybody in the public and private sector a 10% payrise, except for the very top people, directors etc.
Were all special cases and deserve and need more money.
After all we all shop at the same shops and prices have gone up so we need more money.
Ok nursing is a hard job but then again so is roadsweeping, out in all weathers etc and we would all prefer cleaner streets.
This is what happened in the 70's and it didn't necasarily lead to rampant inflation and the negating of your hard earned payrise.
Incidently i remember in the 80's as a miner coming out on strike for a day in support of nurses, cent remeber if any other group did.

 

RE: Were all special cases !

You couldn't do it now... secondary action.
Would mean Union assets being sequestrated.

 

For what it's worth.......

I reckon a lot of nurses are well underpaid for their skills and devotion. The NHS could make a few cuts in middle management and cut out some of those obscene payments to surgeons and give the girls who are following a vocation something closer to what they deserve.

 

Mass menstruation.

Ok girls, whatever you want. Let's talk about it.

 

Sorry Helen but.........

......I agree with you.

 

RE: For what it's worth.......

Trouble is, and it's my opinion based on close observation, fewer and fewer enter the profession to follow their 'vocation'. To most now it's just a job like any other, and there are good and bad nurses same as in any job. And (perversely) the more you improve the pay and conditions the more of that type of person will come in. I really want to reward the caring, humane people who deserve every penny they can get for doing a job that I could not do at any price. And I would love to see more of those people working on the wards But the myth of the nurse as an angel in every case is just that. I bet if Alityke and Gloucester Red's wife, and those others who are associated with the profession, were asked, they would agree that their jobs would be made a lot easier if they got 100% support from all of their colleagues, some of whom I would not pay in washers.

 

Link to day of action.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/16/newsid_2514000/2514195.stm

 

I agree.

I wouldn't pay many of their colleagues in washers either, and fewer of their supposed superiors. I said "a lot of" rather than "all" because I'm also aware of both types. The NHS has certainly changed and so has the attitude of those choosing careers with it but the fact remains that there are still plenty of "vocational" employees who should be better rewarded for their skills and devotion.

 

To be honest

I reckon the nurses should stop spreading their legs so easily for doctors and surgeons. It's the nurses that create the backlogs at hospitals! Hence the 2% wage rise!

Que, Ali giving me a good roasting!

 

We are singing from the same hymn sheet, but perhaps with slightly different lyrics.

My sister was a dedicated healthcare professional. It was her true vocation. She joined at 18, and quickly moved to be a ward sister, attaining that level in her very early 20's. She was a fantastic nurse. In her latter years she moved into training, to try and pass on some of her skills and enthusiasm to new joiners, and I know she had many many successes, but was often dismayed at the calibre and attitude of some of the trainees in her care. She worked for the NHS for more than 40 years, and was a superb practitioner and role model. She probably never earned more then £35k a year, and worked well beyond 60 before retiring recently. My wife's cousin in on the local PHCT, earns over £100k for pushing bits of paper about while manipulating figures, statistics and various bits of stationery, which is what she has always done. She can't wait to take early retirement on her quite phenominal final salary pension scheme.

 

RE: We are singing from the same hymn sheet, but perhaps with slightly different lyrics.

Two very different types there mate. Why the hell are we paying a paper pusher £100k?