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Originally Posted by Lolly
I'd love to here you say that to anyone I work with!! I don't know where you work but that certainly does not apply to anybody I work with.
Its virtually impossible to do the minimum amount of work in my job. We all work bloody hard.
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You actually prove the point I made earlier in the thread.
You are the exact type of person that I want looking after me.
You are a 'mere' carer/support worker (whatever the new PC word is).... BUT....
You won't leave me in a wet bed, i'll get a cup of tea in a clean cup, the floor of my room will be clean, I wont miss my medication, I'll be clean, I'll be fed, you'll notice if soomething is wrong with me.
You have more up to date training, more people looking over your shoulder ensuring you do the job properly, more paperwork, worse hours than nurses, more t's to cross and i's to dot, more hoops to jump through, you are on crap wages (around half of a nurse), you are often understaffed (because the people you work for are in it for the profit)....you work BLOODY hard!...ain't no way a carer/support worker can do a minimum amount.
If it needs doing you have to do it, you cant blame it on the cleaner/cook/auxiliary/laundry person...because you are more often than not all 4, the buck stops with you.
You do the job because you care.
You are what true 'nursing' is all about.
(And you would have blown the whistle at Basildon and Thurrock)