Psych nursing blog
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Here’s a novel idea. Mightn’t Britain improve mental nurse recruitment and retention by improving nurse training courses? Start by asking ‘what do you suppose should be the purpose of mental nurse training?’ You’ll see this is craftily related to other posts and series like ‘What is the purpose of a mental nurse’ and ‘… a…
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Some suggestions for drastic changes in the law. 1. Instant, compulsory, guaranteed life in prison (*c) sentence for any murder of a community staff. I don’t include inpatient staff in this, only because sectioned patients are harder to send to prison and other disposals are available. 37/41 at minimum IMHO. *c) Oh, alright, I suppose…
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Objective. To change mental nursing from a job staff don’t enjoy, feel they were tricked into and can’t wait to escape from into one they do enjoy and intend to stay in because they’re now confident they have the support, freedom and trust to do their jobs properly. To get from here to there, Britain…
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Leadership. I once worked a community job where there were reams of managers, virtually all female, all promoted into newly invented posts where they did nothing of value, (*) attended heaps of meetings, pretended they were busy doing ‘clinical governance’ and other b/s non-words, drank coffee and wrote buckets of reports packed with gobbledegook. When…
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Non-wage benefits. I’ll clip a section from ‘Why Britain is ruined beyond repair’ to explain. ‘Much of this insecurity has been achieved by the salami slicing away of median and lower-income earners’ ‘social entitlements.’ Heaps of what we (because whether you have a middle class, salariat job or are at the bottom, we’ve all lost…
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I know a hospital that has – by its management’s anti-seclusion and you-mustn’t-restrain-patients crusade – made its wards so violent and unsafe that as soon as a community post comes up, everybody working a ward job wants to escape there. (Don’t bother searching for it in the MSM, this type of news doesn’t get reported…
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Ok, I started this blog with a series of posts about the misleading ‘Calocane report,’ (see Calocane 4: What could and should have been done differently?) I finished that post with a list and managed to write about ‘Assertive Outreach’ and ‘Prioritising Treatment’ before wandering off. Here’s my worthy attempt to explore those other points…
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I know a few older nurses who ‘always wanted to be a nurse’. From childhood. How did they know what being a nurse was? Well, unless Mum was a nurse herself, they probably didn’t know for sure. What they pictured no doubt had some romanticised elements baked in but they would have expected to spend…
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Suppose your country screwed every penny it could out of you, in taxes and stealth taxes. Suppose it deliberately designed traps for you to fall in so it could fine you, e.g. HMRC tax returns, fines for parking in the ‘wrong’ place, 20mph zones, speed cameras, recycling bins etc. Suppose your country ranked immigrants (legal…
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