I had a serious op a couple of weeks ago followed by a week's stay on a ward. The day I was due to go home I had a nurse in charge of my bay who was from another EU country but whose English wasn't to a high enough standard to enable her to:
a) be handed over to properly by the nurse leacing form the night shift; she was continually getting confused over which patient was which and what was wrong with them;
b) explain to me how to change my wound dressings;
c) tell me what the drugs I was being sent home with were for;
d) answer the question I asked rather than a question that I hadn't but was vaguely related to a few words I said;
e) communicate effectively with the very old and confused (dementia?) woman in the bed next to me, who got really upset because she didn't understand what was happening to her.
AIBU to think that nurses working in the UK should have a high enough standard of spoken English to do a, b, c, d and e? In my whole stay I only met one native English nurse but the last one was the only one who had a language problem.
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AKMD · 20/09/2011 21:53
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