Category: The state of play you are paying for
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It’s a crap job now 4. Timewasters, fools and criminals. Pt 2 of 3
Continuing ‘Who are the other kinds? A handful of examples.’ 5. Dangerous patients. Not everybody wants to work with these, I grant you, but it’s necessary and some of us are drawn to that kind of work. Calocane was scary but some of us are trained to handle violent patients. In hospital. Locked up. Not…
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Joined up government action 4. Drugs.
Here are some domains which the DOH/NHS can’t tackle on its own. 4. Drugs 1. MAPPA. 2. Violence. 3. Freedom of speech (specifically with regard to race, crime, gender, pronouns, what research subjects one may or may not bring to a round table or journal club without risking one’s career.) 4. Drugs. Here’s where we…
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It’s a crap job now 4. Timewasters, fools and criminals. Pt 1 of 3
I think this post describes a violation of natural justice, committed by the DoH and the self-serving managers who bow and scrape to obey their nonsense decisions. Nurses (and others) choose to train and work this job to help people get better. Especially patients who want to get better, who co-operate, who make an effort.…
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Themes you’ll see recurring .. Pt 2.
I’m remembering as I write, a funny example of that. (Confronting a pt with their own behaviour) This patient (given a diagnosis of paranoid psychosis but over the several years I nursed him, I concluded it was paranoid personality disorder) was in seclusion for attacking someone. By then, nurses had to conduct regular reviews and…
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Baselines Pt II
Patients who are dangerous at baseline Imagine this man living on the same street as you and your teenage daughter. This tall, young, powerful man was admitted onto our secure ward only after he had put half the male staff on his acute ward off sick from his violence. NB the pathetic consultant psychiatrist had…
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How its become a crap job Pt 3
5. Patients, especially inpatients, are much more violent, entitled, addicted, dangerous, personality disordered, protected (*iii) and legally untouchable than they were five, ten, fifteen years ago. I’m an eyewitness. There are clear, cause and effect reasons and explanations for how our useless governments have created a locust-horde of scrotes, addicts, unemployables etc by the truly…
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Crap job 3. It isn’t just patient violence ruins the job I
It isn’t just violence that saps our spirits. No, it’s also the demoralisation we all feel having our hands tied behind our backs by management, quangos and international bodies like the WHO. I was on duty when a worthless, sectioned wretch, a PD without a drop of mental illness, had been insulting, abusing (*),…
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Make scrotes change their ways Pt 2
Picking up a few points from the previous post. 1. Here’s a few ideas to reduce unnecessary costs. a) HR and bean-counters within HMPs and the DOJ to be culled with extreme prejudice. b) Prisoners are expected to work. And earn. (*i) Full-time. Real, physical jobs. Part of this thinking is to prevent the work…
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Mental nursing has become a crap job – intro
I’ve watched, over more than 35 years, while what was a great job (for staff and patients -which I’ll explain and evidence) was deliberately destroyed. Mental nursing is now a crap job and so is nursing assistant or HCA. The proof of the pudding is in the numbers. There aren’t enough people training AND staying…
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Social chaos
In the same way as community and response police have been forced to pick up the work/people/patients/chaos/offences that were once our remit, so has..