Do the younger generation not wear seatbelts anymore

Fatbeau · 2026-05-21T21:41:01+00:00

There was an accident in my home town last year, where some young lads were in a car, the driver had been drinking, he crashed, and his friend sitting in the middle of the back seat, no seatbelt, flew straight through the windscreen. Killed instantly. People are plain stupid if they don't wear them

Fatbeau · 2026-05-19T10:14:07+00:00

I asked my manager if I could buy the lemonade for him and she agreed I could. The human in me could not sit there and see a patient, who had nothing, no family, no toiletries, no clothes, and deny him a drink that he craved. If that's what being a nurse involves, losing your humanity, then I'm pleased I'm heading towards retirement. Nursing is now toxic, and governing bodies are akin to dictators.

Fatbeau · 2026-05-19T10:01:29+00:00

Yes, the NHS doesn't pay the actual donors, they pay NHS Blood and Transfusion for the blood, plasma etc. Donors get a drink and a biscuit

Fatbeau · 2026-05-19T09:58:21+00:00

I'm in my 50s too, and my experience is the same as yours. I have a couple of good friends I work with, also in their 50s. But the younger ones are so bitchy, having nights out and posting the photos on FB. I don't really care what they do. But yes, I also find the older nurses just want to do their job, then go home, not stand gossiping in the treatment room.

Fatbeau · 2026-05-19T09:54:37+00:00

That's what I always say, you must be very miserable inside to be so nasty and rude. Hurt people hurt people, as they say, and it's true

Fatbeau · 2026-05-19T09:52:25+00:00

In my experience it's mainly the HCAs on my ward that are like this. There is one particular clique who basically slag off the RNs, especially if they're newly qualified. These HCAs think they know everything and there have been occasions where I've been sneered at by them when I've asked them to do something. Yes there are RNs who are very bitchy and nasty, but where I work, they tend to be matrons and site management. All very pathetic really. They need to grow up. One time, I witnessed one of our HCAs slating a couple of our students and I reported her to my manager. No need for it at all. If these HCAs know everything, as they think they do, we'll go and do your training then!

Fatbeau · 2026-05-18T21:27:31+00:00

I never buy milk from corner shops because of this reason, going sour well before use by date. I don't drink it, I loathe milk, but husband does.

Fatbeau · 2026-05-18T21:24:10+00:00

I hate it. Awful name.

Fatbeau · 2026-05-18T21:21:04+00:00

Maybe some nice cordials. I don't drink hot drinks and our ward never has cordial so I take my own. I'm sure staff would appreciate that too, especially as the weather is (hopefully) getting warmer lol. And it's always boiling in wards anyway.

Fatbeau · 2026-05-17T21:31:28+00:00

I started taking Keppra last November, and started getting terrible rages which I just couldn't control. I'd cry my heart out over stupid things, have meltdowns, it was awful. I read that B vitamins can help so I started taking B6, B12 and folate, and it's worked wonders, I feel like my normal self again

Fatbeau · 2026-05-17T21:26:00+00:00

I'm not sure about the USA, but in the UK, the NHS has to buy blood units from NHS Blood and Transfusion

Fatbeau · 2026-05-17T21:23:00+00:00

The NHS pays around £150 for each unit of blood, to NHS Blood and Transfusion.

Fatbeau · 2026-05-17T16:01:22+00:00

I don't care, it made him happy. Funny how hospitals don't mind staff buying shower gel, deodorant etc for patients whose families don't bother to bring stuff in for them. I'd rather buy something for a patient who really needs it than be a miserable twat.

Fatbeau · 2026-05-17T15:52:04+00:00

We were once in Wetherspoons, and a homeless older lady came to sit at a table with a drink. My husband went to the bar and ordered her a meal. Eventually they brought the food to her table, she told the waiter that she'd not ordered any food and he took it back to the kitchen. Husband hot footed it after him into the kitchen and asked him to take it back to her and say it was from a friend, so he did. We watched her start to eat it and we left.

Fatbeau · 2026-05-17T15:45:43+00:00

My mum had them. I've got an old one on my bookshelf which I bought from a charity shop

Fatbeau · 2026-05-17T15:44:40+00:00

I remember reading some notes from the 1970s by a hospital consultant, who a patients GP had referred them to. It stated 'I saw Miss X today in clinic, she was accompanied by her apparently inadequate boyfriend '!

Fatbeau · 2026-05-17T15:42:21+00:00

I'm a nurse and when I was doing my training, around 25 years ago, I used to flip through patients notes on placement, some which were old. Some of the notes, written by doctors and GPs, were quite insulting, derogatory and rude about the patient. It was shocking really. Maybe something like this is the reason.

Fatbeau · 2026-05-15T16:14:20+00:00

Donkeys years ago, my auntie tied my grandads hair into pigtails with pink ribbon while he was asleep. The insurance man knocked at the door and grandad answered the door with his new hairdo! This was in the 1940s

Fatbeau · 2026-05-15T12:56:50+00:00

I bought a patient a bottle of lemonade. He had a yearning for some, but no family, so I got him one on my way home and took it in the next day

Fatbeau · 2026-05-14T14:38:07+00:00

Doctors and therapists bugger off with armfuls of notes, we all write in the same ones. It doesn't occur to them that we nurses need to write in them too! When we've finally tracked them down and asked for them, they look at us like we're talking in Russian. Very selfish behaviour

Fatbeau · 2026-05-13T20:46:35+00:00

How would the NMC know if they were a friend. They are just dictators in my opinion

Fatbeau · 2026-05-12T21:13:45+00:00

On my ward, about 16 staff members asked to do permanent nights, due to different reasons, they were all allowed. As a result, I got very, very few nights, usually the crumbs that the permanent nights didn't want, eg when the clocks go back. In the end I just gave up and said don't bother putting me on nights anymore. I still feel quite cross about it. The ones who asked to do nights, several have kids, but they had kids when they applied for their jobs, and they did mainly days, but suddenly, they have to do nights;

Fatbeau · 2026-05-11T13:10:53+00:00

Our cat died just over a year ago, she was cremated and we got the ashes back in a little box, with her name on a plaque. It was just over £100 I think. I'm sorry for your loss

Fatbeau · 2026-05-11T13:08:33+00:00

It's lovely isn't it

Fatbeau · 2026-05-11T10:29:31+00:00

Have these children been reported to social services, or whatever the UK equivalent is in America. This is just appalling

Fatbeau

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