A Serious Post

[lemonbella]

I 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

Comments

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

Excel or Access? Access is my baby, Excel makes me want to kill people.

[heatherbelles.livejournal.com]

Excel. Although you will be proud to know that I have completed my ECDL the beginning of this month, so am able to wrestle Access as well. (I did find it confusing occasional, but mostly I can make it behave).

Excel was making me gnash my teeth a few times, but at the moment, dad is now being able to try out rotas for his team and see how it affects things (hours worked as compared to contracted hours, how many on late/early/weekend/how many, so they can try and cover longer hours (no more funding for staff however, which is typical!).

I am considering listing it on my cv as an achievement! (and will be keeping a copy on my computer for future reference/tweaking for other places

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

definitely an acheivement!