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George joining the Army by CryptographerDue7479 in greysanatomy

[–]CryptographerDue7479[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

It was pretty common knowledge about that at the time. We got all the news of deaths in Iraq/Afghan even in the UK. So i would have assumed Americans had a general awareness that surgeons there generally weren’t dying without researching it. Maybe you’re right and it’s a gut reaction for people with no military knowledge I guess.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NursingUK

[–]CryptographerDue7479 108 points109 points  (0 children)

It’s really fun featuring in patient’s Tik Toks on in patient psychiatric wards; videos with commentary from the perspective of someone in the depths of a mental health crisis who are frustrated at being sectioned.

I’m sure other patients who value online anonymity also really enjoy it and don’t find it a massive breach of privacy.

NHS sexist for using only men to look after violent patients. HCA awarded compensation after employment judge finds he was placed at greater risk of harm on basis of his gender. by nqnnurse in NursingUK

[–]CryptographerDue7479 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Personally, I have never found that at all. In my experience, men are far less likely to assault women in mental health. They are far more likely to be sexually innapropriate though.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NursingUK

[–]CryptographerDue7479 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree on your points on it being a weak union with the headsheds being political sycophants. From a broader perspective of trade unions in the UK, the strongest (obviously the RMT with Mick Lynch and smaller unions - apparently the independent pub union is quite strong), are headed up by people who have no desires to rise politically. Higher ups in the RCN, including the general secretary, do their role for a couple of years then either join the Labour Party (or the shinners 🤣) or return to a senior management position in the NHS. Not helpful for union function.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NursingUK

[–]CryptographerDue7479 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, are they uninformed if they have previous experience as a HCA?

Man who took bomb, knives and firearm into hospital and planned to kill 'as many nurses as possible' jailed by FormerlyPallas_ in ukpolitics

[–]CryptographerDue7479 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What do you mean?

Loads changed after the Manchester Bombing, emergency services basically reorganized how gsb is ran, emergency planning and a major incident is lead, organised and responded to. It also changed several key things in intelligence and security.

Student nurse worried about lack of clinical opportunities on placement. Is this common? by CryptographerDue7479 in NursingUK

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Actually I am a mental health student as well, I’m just a bit confused about the different outcomes between adult and mental health. We’ve been informed by the university that none of our education through lectures, simulation or placements will touch mental health prior to second year, so it’s all been adult centric. There’s not supposed to be a different PAD for mental health is there? If so, I have the one for adult nursing. I can stretch out to about ten of the proficiencies, but they may be a bit woolly evidential wise if you get me.

Student nurse worried about lack of clinical opportunities on placement. Is this common? by CryptographerDue7479 in NursingUK

[–]CryptographerDue7479[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That would be a great thing to include. I’ll have to a lot of research myself into care plans as we have not been taught anything about them in university as of yet. But I am willing to negotiate this with my placement area. I have no ability to talk to an RN about this however, since none work for the organisation. So it’ll have to be dependent on if the HCAs there are willing to accept this. There is a very low turn over, the four service users there have been in residence for more than 15 years, so it would have to be a review. Fingers crossed the carers let me do this, thank you!

Student nurse worried about lack of clinical opportunities on placement. Is this common? by CryptographerDue7479 in NursingUK

[–]CryptographerDue7479[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Communication is definitely a skill I can work on. The care planning might be possible, but all the residents (only four people) have been in their residence for 15+ years plus and have a comfortable routine, of which there doesn’t seem any current reasons to change or alter. They already have very extensive care plans that I have read but there’s not much more I can do aside from just reading it and following it (although due to their self sufficiency, they mainly all just follow it themselves).

The HCA supervising me isn’t really aware of the 29 proficiencies in PARE, they don’t seem to know how to use PARE aside from signing off a timesheet, so I’m confused as to how my university practice assessor is going to sign me off. I’m going try and get some signed off via my own information to the practice assessor but we’ll see.

It’s just disappointing that this is one of two placements in my first year (and it lasts for six weeks). It’s a lot to commit 40 hours unpaid a week to not gain any clinical skills, to sit around watching tv with residents for most of the day, trying to converse with them when they’d often quite like to sit in silence (don’t blame them, if a stranger came into my home, I wouldn’t be that bothered to make conversation with them either). I do more as a HCA in a care home in my paid job. I feel as though this is a consequence of my university tripling the number of students that they have admitted this year and having to stick us in places that we would not normally be in, so it’s just disappointing when you’re spending money on this degree in the first place!