[annesingleton]

My best friend and my sister in law both trained as nurses in the early seventies, they were employed by the hospital and did all their training in school at Blackburn Royal Infirmary and on the wards there or at Queens Park Hospital - in fact my friend delivered my first son when she was training.
I think that things might have become more technical now and there may be a need for more in depth training possibly, but the focus on caring for patients needs and having empathy for them should be paramount - the system should work to meet the needs of the patient, not the other way round where patients have to fit around the system. After all, we pay an awful lot of money for this service throughout our lives, which seems to be a point that people working in the NHS seem to forget! There seems to be a basic lack of human respect within the nursing profession now, which has not been seen previously - I have evidenced this myself when my partner was admitted to hospital in Manchester earlier this year. The nurses generally speaking did not present as professional, they appeared to have little regard for their patients and had I behaved in the way they did in my profession I would have been disciplined at the very least!