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Old 28-04-2008, 02:30   #57
polly
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Re: Hospital infections

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Originally Posted by jambutty View Post
Hospital management should be firmly in the hands of someone with half a lifetime of experience in working in a hospital. Someone who started off as a trainee nurse and worked herself up through the nursing hierarchy to Matron.

By the time that someone got to be a Matron they knew it all. Patients and some skiving nurses could kid other nurses and even doctors but no one fooled a Matron.

Some hooray Henry with a university degree in management or accountancy hasn’t got a clue how to run a hospital.
The problem here is that trainee nurses no longer get the same training as they did years ago. There is too much emp0haisis on accademic qualifications instead of practical experience of emptying bed pans, making beds and cleaning under them.
Hospital management needs to be taken away from accademics/politicians and put firmly back into the hands of those with good old fashioned common sense. Ons suspects the eastern european cleaner might make a good Ward Manager.

also I believe large super hospitals help to spread diseases and are grossly inconvenient for the public, bring back the cottage hospital.
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