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Originally Posted by polly
Please could some one tell me where all these overworked staff are?
Everytime I go to Outpaitnents there seems to be plenty of nurses chatting and standing around drinking cups of tea!!
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Lol, you obviously haven't visited a medical/surgical/maternity ward for a long time then. It is possible to now work 13 hour shifts and not have a single brew on these wards. In my opinion we are perilously understaffed on the wards both by qualified nurses and support staff. It is possible to not see a cleaner for a full shift if it is the usual ward cleaner's day off. I have had to ring domestics on several occasions just to get our bins emptied.
If I won the lottery I would ****** off tomorrow because I am sick and fed up of not being able to do my job properly. Staff shortages, equipment shortages and ever increasing paperwork and red tape mean that I am constantly tied up doing other peoples work on top of my own. I feel, at times, that I cannot give the care that I have been trained and worked hard to give, due to having to deal with all this extra cr@p.
Visitors and patients do not help when they don't complain....... So please, feel free to send complaints in to the highest possible person because, until enough people complain, nothing will be done. If you think that staffing is an issue in your complaint, then, say so.
You will be helping us to help you.
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