My daughter, ex nurse, rang me tonight. She was quite distraught. Visited her friend, another nurse, who is suffering from Lupus.
The lovely Caroline asked her to bring her some cigarettes because she had run out ... OK ... moralists on smoking, back off. She had to go outside to have a cigarette on a zimmer and pumped up with morphine.
Not only that but, seems now patients have to pay to watch the normal channels on TV ....25p per minute (sure my daughter got this fact wrong ! £7.50 to watch Corrie !!). You buy a card and charged later.
Not only that, she was distressed by an elderly patient in the next bed who had been given jelly for her tea. She had slipped down into an uncromposing position whereby was impossible to get this delicacy into her mouth. She asked for a cellophane bag to put it in so that she could eat it later; daughter recognized the fact that what she really meant was waiting for a moment when she was in a physical position to actually get it in her gob!! No nurses appeared to be aware of this fact.
My daughter has seen it all on the wards and am finding it difficult to listen to her heartache in this way. This is why she exited from nursing and now works for a company selling surgical products; no nursing care anymore .. not the nurses fault, just not enough anymore to cover .. or is it, is there now a change in attitude.? Summat's gotta' be done.
