Category: The state of play you are paying for
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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..
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The state of play you are paying for Part 2
1. Remember the story I told you (in Let me tell you how its become a crap job Pt1) about the sadistic PD, making female staff’s lives a misery, who I managed to seclude? At the time I put my hands on him, he had retreated to his bedroom (and there’s another post about the…
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The state of play you are paying for Part 1c
NB Did you know that when psych patients are admitted, there’s a policy (yes, yet another one) obliging staff – this means nurses – to screen them for all the physical illnesses and conditions that the psychiatric population (well, a subsection of it if we’re being honest) suffers disproportionally. And to be treated for anything…