I joined
@theRCN
in 1992 as a new student nurse. Tomorrow, for the first time, I am withholding my labour and taking part in lawful strike action. Nursing terms and conditions need to improve. Nursing is safety critical and there simply isn’t enough of us.
#NursesStrike
Unsuccessful today at interview for Matron post. But good feedback and not sorry I applied. 🤞🏻 Good things will come in time, and I still have work to finish in my existing role and a service that I’m proud to lead.
@DzessikaJessica
These are the best stories -
In infant school, member of staff said to my son, ‘your hands are freezing cold, don’t you have gloves?’, he replied, ‘yes, but I gave them to Isla’
@timothy_stanley
@MrsNickyClark
@JamesCleverly
90% of the nurses in our team are international nurses and most earn £28-34k. They have partners and/or children. I hope they’ll work in the NHS and our team, for a very long time. They have a right to family life.
Medical Physics department made face shields. Moulded hard plastic. Secured around the head with disposable tourniquets. The pain after a couple of minutes on the temples was awful. Worn for 6hrs+ without a break.
#BREATHTAKING
Shout out to
@alisonleary1
on withstanding an epic day of mansplaining. More discussion is needed if we are going to fundamentally change things. A band 7 staff nurse in light of the staffing pressures sounds intriguing - why isn’t it being done?
@SkyScottBeasley
Is suggested to my husband that men be curfew’d. He was astounded at the suggestion. ‘You can’t do that!’
Women have been doing this the world over since the beginning of time.
@TasminaSheikh
@Debateisgood1
Gender neutral toilets are single floor to ceiling cubicles, fully enclosed, which are accessible to one person only at a time. Therefore no one should be able to be seen in them. Anything else, is an erosion of rights and not gender neutral facilities.
@candyspets2
@Katynurse27
Heard of a similar conversation from someone long estranged from clinical nursing practice today. The response was perfect - ‘I think you are out of touch with how nurses are working now’.
@DrHFRyan
@Cleverestcookie
This is surely well beyond the originals design of the PA role? To advertise it that someone with abdo pain is more appropriately seen by PA than GP beggars belief.
@trishgreenhalgh
It’s like the anecdote of elderly man visiting wife with dementia, asked why he visits when she doesn’t remember him. He replies, she may not remember, but I do.
Solidarity to all those on strike today. These decisions are not taken easily or lightly, but as a profession the working conditions are not safe for patients and not safe for nurses.
#RCNStrike
@DrJN_SportsMed
A highly capable nurse colleague who is now a medical student tells me the information is so full on their brain feels like they cannot absorb any more, and cannot get behind as new knowledge will be lost.
So do all that, and work too?! 🤯🙈🫣
@seahorse4000
My father in law was on an EOL pathway this time last year with unknown primary. Used to take my gloves off to hold his hand in hospital, and think I’d get in trouble if people saw me.
*would wash my hands instead
When our new IR nurses pass their NMC OSCE, and 2x talented and brilliant APs get invited to interview for Apprentice Staff Nurse posts, it’s been a pretty darn good Monday!
#wenurses
@NewcastleHosps
@iDrSunny
@DrLindaDykes
@Adam_Skeen
@bmj_latest
Worked with a very competent RN who became a very competent and knowledgeable SCP. Now at medical school and admits to being humbled by the difference and lack of knowledge/depth.
@alisonleary1
People haven’t caught on to the fact that nursing is safety critical. It’s why skills dilution has happened. There is still outrage at the suggestion that higher ratio RNs saves lives. And the mindset that bedside care is the remit of support staff still thrives.
@iseult
Yet wasn’t there mention of permanent girl mode a few short months ago in a magazine article? Wrong side of age for girl casting? More longevity in boy mode?
How lucky.
@alisonleary1
And yet, despite the shortages and work pressures, student nurses can still be welcomed into the team. Here’s a lovely thank you card from our 2nd year student nurse on her last day today - really good feedback and wants a job on qualifying.. I’m thrilled and proud.
The majority of physiotherapists and midwives are paid AFC band 6 (£33-40k). This is not true of nurses - the majority of which (ward based) are paid at Band 5 (£27-32K) and remain in that band for much longer. Nurses also often drop bands if move specialisms.
#RCNStrikes
#NHS
I’m pleased that members of the Royal College of Midwives
@MidwivesRCM
have decided to accept the Government’s pay offer for NHS staff.
This demonstrates it is a fair and reasonable proposal that can bring this dispute to an end.
1/3
@HumanGayMale
@iseult
OJs tweet was full of entitlement. Nothing to do with homophobia. It’s the arrogance the permeated from the statement ‘hunting broody lesbians’. As if women are just there for his taking.
@ClaireLoneragan
@PankhurstEM
Surely it would be easier to just get rid of the cravat and allow officers to pick either a bowler or helmet on what is comfortable/appropriate. Why is a cravat for women even necessary?
@nohandsup
@emergprehosp
I suspect it might be a combination of a largely female workforce and vocation rhetoric. PC acting up to Sergeant get pay increase after 200 hrs.
@alisonleary1
@Jeremy_Hunt
at a medical conference yesterday. Lots of content beyond my knowledge base. think nursing needs to raise the education level not lower it.
This whole thread is bizarre. Its premise is that women are not to be afforded privacy and dignity, and as men can attack them anywhere, so men should just be able to go wherever they please.
A reminder that single sex spaces are lawful in UK.
FFS. If a man wants to sexually assault a woman, the female sign on the toilet door will do nothing to stop him! It is not some magical talisman. Predators attacked people in toilets long before the The Equality Act came in. Stop using toilets as an excuse for your bigotry.
@NurseStandard
Resources for safe and quality care. Manageable workloads that don’t keep you awake at night. A pace that is pleasant or even enjoyable. A salary that meets reasonable bills for your efforts. Learning and developing. Shift patterns that aid retention.
Have we given up on those?
@UoB_Nursing
@WeNurses
@StNurseProject
Men are already ‘promoted in Nursing’. Overwhelmingly the top grades/positions are filled by men and they often achieve senior posts in less time than females.
@alisonleary1
has data I think.
@WeNurses
None of those. It’s hard. Covid fatigue is impacting the rota. There’s less enjoyment in the job and greater feelings of nursing being transactional. I don’t hate my job. I just love it less than I did. But it’s not ok either.
Husband perusing the news. Sees the suggestion of a 6pm curfew for men. Is incredulous and irritated. Looking puzzled by my news that the same advice is frequently given to women.. 😍
#CurfewForMen
#ReclaimTheStreets
#SarahEverard
@alisonleary1
@ProfJuneG
And because we are short of staff, we are short of time, which means we are short of development, reflection, learning, and growing opportunities.
@Dr_Done_
@alisonleary1
@LeanneHPatrick
At the time it was made clear that the title was Nursing Associate rather than Nurse Associate to avoid confusing patients. An upskilled regulated HCA post, after Winterborne (or similar scandal) to safeguard patients was how it was sold.
@mancunianmedic
I had a parking charge a couple of weeks ago for apparently parking in a ‘no waiting’ zone.
What I was actually doing - stuck in stationery traffic trying to leave the hospital after my shift due to roadworks further down causing queues.
Appealed and cancelled.
@juniordrblog
Is the assumption that a big % of these other professional groups secretly yearn to be doctors and were just waiting for an opportunity..?
Day 2 of lawful strike action. Nursing is safety critical. We need more of us, particularly at ward level, and pay a fair wage for the emotional, cognitive, physical and organisational labour of nursing.
#RCNStrike
#FairPayforNursing
#NHS
@BeckettUnite
@frejac19
Car parking is £40pm at our hospital. I’ve used a hospital park and ride system - works well, but adds time on, which had an impact for getting to childcare provider on time. Now have a regular on call - no bus runs at 4am, and I live 15miles away from work.
@WeNurses
@JohnCampaign
- please, please, please sign up and support. When my mum was admitted to a specialist dementia unit in 2017, visiting was 2-4pm and 7-8pm! Awful for her and us.
#WeNurses
@talesofthesmith
@alisonleary1
It was more about why ward nurses are not ‘promoted’ in terms of pay and band with experience, rather than having to move into managerial or specialist posts… an example - my husband is a PC 20 yrs. Never sought promotion. His pay has matched mine despite that. I am B7.
@chlorofem
At the least, this is as crass as insulting the Bride in the wedding speeches. At its worst, it perpetuates the raging misogynistic culture that undermines women and girls equal place in society. Women, who do most of the donkey work at Christmas.
Vetto’d the family bike ride today. Sun’s out and I suspect so will people be. So we’re staying home. Luxury of a garden. And slow-roasting some pork for lunch.
#StayHomeSaveLives
@MgrAnonymous
Nursing hours spent nursing. Rather than filled with all the other things that need done (and can be done by other staff groups) which takes away from nursing duties.
@rosieICM
@thetimes
Wait until James learns that non medical and dental NHS staff (everyone else) is on Agenda for Change and there is extra pay for nights, weekends and Bank holidays too. I expect to work my 5th Christmas Day in 7 yrs, this year.
@PRMira
As the only woman in the house, our toilets are gender neutral. But they are only used by the household. I don’t open the door to random strangers standing in the hall.
@WeNurses
Hmm. Resilience is a tricky word. Developing coping mechanisms to stress and distress is part of nursing. Resilience is personal to the other stresses and strains in life and isn’t enough on own. Good organisational support needed
#wenurses
@LevinsLaw
There’s a reason girls clothes are fastooned with Be Kind messages, and the boys are not.
Women are always expected to be ‘decent’ (subservient). To put others first.