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Nurses eating on shift...

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PatsyAndEddy · 12/07/2013 20:44

Just back from hospital visiting a friend who had her tonsils out today. She had to fast from 10 pm last night and didn't get taken for her op until 2pm, that's a long time without food for anyone!

She missed dinner on the ward but they got her a sandwich but she's really sore and hungry!

On the ward her bed is right next to the nurses station. She said they were sitting munching on a large bag of kettle chips in front of her between the three of them. She commented on how she thought that was a but mean, they snapped back saying 'well we have to eat' at which point my friend reminded them that's what they're breaks were for.

I don't think she's flavour of the month in the ward! She can be a bit of a grump at the best of times but starving, sore and groggy I think she reached her limit!

We're the nurses being unreasonable, eating on shift?

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hiddenhome · 14/07/2013 16:19

OP, I think your friend should have been forced to hang on to her tonsils until she learned some humility and respect for the people who are caring for her Hmm

If I don't eat in front of my computer on my shift, whilst I do my notes, my blood sugar drops and everyone will be given the wrong drugs.

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PatsyAndEddy · 14/07/2013 16:25

But you already have, by calling calling her a cunt repeatedly.

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hobnobsaremyfavourite · 14/07/2013 16:28

methinks the op fits the category of "goady fucker" nicely

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PatsyAndEddy · 14/07/2013 16:30

How is that?

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Madratlady · 14/07/2013 16:31

As for he amount of empty beds, I would guess that most of the beds (probably 30 or so, not just the one room your friend was in) were full earlier in the day and the staff were busy preparing people for theatre and probably had post operative patients who had had to be closely monitored for several hours as well. It's quite possible that that was the first lull in a busy shift and they were making the most of it.

Crinkle77 · 14/07/2013 16:34

My friend is a nurse and she says sometimes they are so busy they don't have time to take their breaks. They're lucky if they even get a cuppa.

TimeofChange · 14/07/2013 16:36

OP: you have asked if the nurses were being unreasonable eating on their shift.

I suppose I could count how many replies there are that agree with you, but I can't be bothered.
But we all know lots more people disagree with you than agree, but you seem unable to accept this.

TimeofChange · 14/07/2013 16:37

Even Married has gone away to complain to her MP about nurses' working conditions and she had a very low opinion of nurses.

SpecialAgentTattooedQueen · 14/07/2013 17:03

Nailed it hobnobs

Shitsinger · 14/07/2013 18:04

"Methinks" "Impure motives"
The Victorian era called and needs you back - urgently!
As for Florence spinning in her grave - she would be astonished at patients not dying from a simple wound, or wards with clean running water and no rats . She would be astonished at the dedication and skills that modern nurses possess.
But she would be utterly appalled at the way nurses are portrayed because she wasnt really a wafty lampwielding do gooder - she was a social reformer ,misguided sometimes ,granted but she realised that to do the important and vital job of nursing ,nurses need support and the right working conditions.

SauvignonBlanche · 14/07/2013 18:35

I agree with hobnobs.

pleiadianpony · 14/07/2013 18:49

married If you can do something to that will actually make a difference you will be the hero of nurses!!

Oh, and if you can get them to lower the fees that Nurse's have to pay to the NMC and RCN to actually be a nurse, that would be great too!!

patsy can you not actually recognise that your friends comments make her rude and were unreasonable?

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PatsyAndEddy · 14/07/2013 18:51

Have I said that her comments were anything?

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expatinscotland · 14/07/2013 18:58

'The lowest? Really? No one in society lower than someone having a grump after an op when feeling pretty prettysorry for themselves? No one?'

Well, no one except perhaps the friend who spent time bitching ad nauseum about a few Kettle Crisps someone was eating a nurse's station rather than asking her mate what she might like to eat and nipping down the shops and getting her something, seeing as that sharp crisps after an op like that probably aren't the best things to eat immediately.

As to having a grump because you couldn't feed for your greedy gob for a few hours in order to have a vital operation that will vastly improve your health, that qualifies for spoilt, bitchy and immature behaviour to many.

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PatsyAndEddy · 14/07/2013 19:03
Grin

Wind your neck in expat did you miss the for times I have said that I did go in with lots of goodies for my mate?

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PatsyAndEddy · 14/07/2013 19:04

*four

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expatinscotland · 14/07/2013 19:14

'Wind your neck in expat did you miss the for times I have said that I did go in with lots of goodies for my mate?'

Then why bitch about someone eating Kettle Crisps when she had plenty enough to feed her gob?

Unless this entire incident is well, um . . . .

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PatsyAndEddy · 14/07/2013 19:18

Well um what? So spit it out dear.

The crisp incident happened before visiting time which was when I, er, visited, with aforementioned goodies.

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hobnobsaremyfavourite · 14/07/2013 19:19

would you like a bigger spoon to stir the shit with op? :)

expatinscotland · 14/07/2013 19:21

'Well um what? So spit it out dear.'

Nah, the hole being dug is far to funny to stop watching. It's so rare on MN these days it's an opportunity not to be missed. Carry on, dear. This is fun.

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PatsyAndEddy · 14/07/2013 19:25

So keep up, all of that was mentioned in the first few of my posts. But do come out and accuse me of what you will, there's a dear.

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londone17 · 14/07/2013 19:25

I was in hospital last year where it was so busy the nurses had no break during a 13 hour shift. They had to have a cup of tea brought out to them as that was the best they could do. They could have eaten a whole meal in front of me if they wanted as they were so lovely. I felt sorry for them. If Id been able Id have made it for them.

For those who disagree, get off your chairs and high horses and do a shift yourselves. You wont last an hour.

expatinscotland · 14/07/2013 19:29

'So keep up, all of that was mentioned in the first few of my posts. '

Why? This is so much more entertaining, stringing you along for days on end over some crisps.

pleiadianpony · 14/07/2013 19:30

patsy how about this for your next post...

.'bloody hell, I didn't realise nurses work so hard. What a fucking nightmare for them. I'm really embarrassed about my rude friend, she indeed was a bit of a c**t'

And

'next time i have to go into the hospital, I'm going to take a big massive bag of kettle chips in for all the nurses who are working their arses off'

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PatsyAndEddy · 14/07/2013 19:32

Expat of you're going to put your time and energy into trying to trip me up, I suggest you try harder.

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