Patients for the NHS

26/01/2023

26/01/2023

Imagine you've been training for 3 years. You've got yourself into a load of debt. You've completed 2,300 hours of free labour, Then you finally get your pin, which you have to pay £120 for yearly, along with £17 a month to be in a union just to cover your back. You go onto one of your first shifts and staff haven't turned up. The "safe numbers" are 12 but you've only got 8, another ward is even lower so they have to ask for one of your staff too. So now you're on 7. You've got two 2-1's, so that's 4 staff gone. Now you just have 3 people to supervise an entire ward. You know this is dangerous but these are the conditions everyone is used to now so you're basically told to put up and shut up. You probably have 3 or 4 agency staff in who are getting paid triple, with nowhere near the same amount of responsibility. You sit in the office because you've had several incidents and now you've got to get all the paperwork done. You know your pin has been on the line all shift and, in turn, your liberty. You have to stay behind 3 hours because a nurse has called in sick, and you have paperwork to complete anyway. It's now been a 15 hour shift and you could have picked up more for a shift in Lidl with nowhere near the same amount of responsibility on your shoulders or debt behind you. That's why nurses are striking. Every day is a battlefield. Every day patient safety is at risk and every day that responsibility lies on our shoulders.
Support your nurses. You'll most certainly need them one day.
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Solidarity with our nurses ✊🏻

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Please support.

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Anyone willing to try something? Anything?

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Couldn't agree more