This is going to have to be an area where we agree to disagree, my friend! I can't sign it in good faith.
I agree that the conditions are appalling, and whistleblowing should be applauded - however, doing if for a TV programme, and not taken directly to the RCN, was wrong. Consent from those elderly patients was not obtained until after filming was done, which is also not proper consent (Consent info given by my nursing parents).
I think that people should be aware of it, and made more so, but the way she went about it was against the Nursing ethics she agreed to when she registered. I sympathise with her aims, but not her methods - from what I can gather she focused on 'filming evidence' to the detriment of her nursing.
I do hope however, that it will highlight how important it is for people to whistleblow if situations/care are unacceptable, but for goodness sake don't do it by breaching other ethics!
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Date: 2009-04-24 09:16 pm (UTC)I agree that the conditions are appalling, and whistleblowing should be applauded - however, doing if for a TV programme, and not taken directly to the RCN, was wrong. Consent from those elderly patients was not obtained until after filming was done, which is also not proper consent (Consent info given by my nursing parents).
I think that people should be aware of it, and made more so, but the way she went about it was against the Nursing ethics she agreed to when she registered. I sympathise with her aims, but not her methods - from what I can gather she focused on 'filming evidence' to the detriment of her nursing.
I do hope however, that it will highlight how important it is for people to whistleblow if situations/care are unacceptable, but for goodness sake don't do it by breaching other ethics!