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 scrotogenic policies and laws they have enacted. (Or cravenly stood by and permitted the ECHR to enact).
Every year it gets worse. If you work for a private hospital and are put off sick by a patient assault, there is no sick pay for you.
*iii) protections are baked into law, national and hospital policy and those slippery powers of ‘woke’ including cancellation. At the very same time, nurses and staff are endangered by those protections, since it’s a zero sum game. Giving rights to one group takes those same rights from another group. Which of the two groups would you and your loved ones prefer to be protected? Sorry, you’re paying for the opposite.
6. Fair working terms and conditions (I know it’s not exclusive to nursing). These have been chipped away as part of neo-liberal economic policies, for many decades. Macaroon’s government savaged worker protection by –
a) adding a newly created a fee for an employment tribunal. (I wonder where the money goes?)
b) reduced the maximum payout for unfair dismissal and
c) doubled the length of time you had to be in a job before you could even make a claim for unfair dismissal claims, from one to two years. Two years before you dare take out a mortgage, have a baby and so on. There have been plenty more.
7. To train as a nurse, you have to undertake a degree course. Course, it’s not a real degree, like in yesteryear. Nursing and all the other subjects have suffered dumbing down in order to increase intakes. University managers are rewarded for going along with the con. Education has been made female friendly for a long time, so there are fewer men and fewer students from C, D & E classes. And you finish with a whacking student loan (unless your employer pays for you to work an apprenticeship.)
NB one of the many clusterflucks with Calocane was when a ward refused to take him because their staffing was ‘predominantly female.’ I expect they were right to do so. Females can’t restrain men like men can. They get injured. (Look at the Manchester airport clusterfluck.) They are justifiably nervous about going in when the patient is bigger than they are. The whole thing is twisted. Even bad male patients pull back from attacking women when they’ll happily attack male staff. I’m quite sure Calocane (and other psychotic male patients) wouldn’t have those brakes. But the government policies and choices that led to young men rejecting nursing are real and have real world consequences for mhs.
8. The wards aren’t safe to work on anymore because of –
a) high levels of patient violence,
b) policies making it impossible to restrain, medicate (*iv) and seclude patients safely. Punishments for nurses who spoil management’s stats on restraint and seclusion reduction. (There aren’t any targets or incentives for management to reduce patient violence.)
c) staffing
d) overwhelming volumes of e-paperwork. This has no benefit at all for ground floor staff or patients. None. It is essential for certain layers of managers to ‘prove’ to the CQC and other regulators, funders, commissioners and other parasites what ‘they’ (actually the coal face staff) are doing. Some is box ticking. Some are economic alchemy spells and incantations, pretending these clowns can measure our ‘productivity’ by making us fill in boxes and checklists. There are genuine, real disincentives to dissuade you from prioritising your patients instead of completing this cobblers.
*i) Being valued, trusted, supported, developed, efforts made to retain you.
*iv) I’ll come to how doctors are prevented from properly medicating patients in due course.
Continues in ‘How its become a crap job’ Pt 4
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