A Serious Post
Apr. 24th, 2009 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lemonbellaI very rarely post about serious things and even more rarely about the work I do, but this is important.
Some of you may have seen the news in the last week that the Nursing and Midwifery Council struck off a nurse who recorded, for Panorama, the abuse of elderly patients on a hospital ward.
I work in Adult Protection. The horrific suffering she highlighted goes on across the country on a daily basis. It is significantly more widespread than many of you will realise or that many of us want to acknowledge. That it happens in hospitals is perhaps a worse crime, if these things can be graded.
Without people like this nurse being willing to speak out we will never be able to tackle abuse sufficiently. Whistleblowing should be applauded, not penalised.
The Royal College of Nursing is sponsoring a petition in support of this nurse. Please sign it. And if you need any more pursuading or information let me know...
Petition
Some of you may have seen the news in the last week that the Nursing and Midwifery Council struck off a nurse who recorded, for Panorama, the abuse of elderly patients on a hospital ward.
I work in Adult Protection. The horrific suffering she highlighted goes on across the country on a daily basis. It is significantly more widespread than many of you will realise or that many of us want to acknowledge. That it happens in hospitals is perhaps a worse crime, if these things can be graded.
Without people like this nurse being willing to speak out we will never be able to tackle abuse sufficiently. Whistleblowing should be applauded, not penalised.
The Royal College of Nursing is sponsoring a petition in support of this nurse. Please sign it. And if you need any more pursuading or information let me know...
Petition
