Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
I now appreciate how lucky I am not to have had a long stay in hospital for years only one over night stay in the last ten years.
Being an outsider of the profession and reading the last few posts, it seems that we are getting too many of the wrong people entering nursing when they leave school. Are these school leavers now choosing nursing because they really want to nurse or because they have the relative grades and nursing will do and the pay is acceptable.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
I can not agree I have been in and out hospital for some time now and I am waiting to go in again now.I am 69years old and I do not think I could have been better looked after even if I had payed for it.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
You did pay for it all your working life Vic and still do if you pay tax on your pensions.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Jan you are right on that one,All I am saying up till now I have been well looked after,But at this very time,I have been waiting a long time to go back in.but I must wait my turn.
Vic, you are becoming annoying. You "can not agree". You have been extremely lucky, or you don't understand how you should be cared for. Whatever - you cannot possibly argue with all the anecdotal evidence offered by perfectly reasonable people with no axe to grind. You may have been lucky, others have not been so lucky. Many many others have not been so lucky. And it should not be down to luck. Your dogmatic and shortsighted statements about a variety of things are beginning to get under my skin.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
The programme did highlight the bad side and it should not be ignored, but TV and local/.national media only survive on bad news stories.
There is no doubt we can all identify times when things not up to the standard they should be.
But the visits i'v had with both my son's and other family members couldnt fault the staff.
Ambulance crews were surperb.
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That's good to hear. I repeat, there is good practice and there are fab staff. My own experience from both sides is that they are not the norm. It is also the experience of many others. I am glad there are people with good experiences, but that is what the people providing the services are supposed to do - it is not a bonus or something for which we should be eternally grateful, and it will do no-one any good to ignore the serious deficits.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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BERN;
I did agree entirely to your posting
but just let posters know of my own findings on my visits to hospitals
as they were mentioned.
As has been mentioned there are a number of reasons we are all aware of the downfall in some places
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Bern, they all know what Vic is like and that he is a member of the board, it might be in his notes, so possibly a case of preferencial treatment.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
jan
i would suspect that not to be the case
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I am upset that you even think like that Jan and that is not true I was in a ward for men and it was the same for them all+I did have awalk around the wards before I left and they were all being well looked after and the wards were very very clean. I am waiting to go back in again this time I am told it will take alot longer than last time And I have now been waiting a year for that to happen,and I am happy to wait my turn.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Why are you upset Vic? I did not say you asked for preferential treatment I just said it was possible you recieved it.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
jan
im sure he wouldnt(didn't)
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Divided by a common language, I am afraid!!!
