To think this A and E situation is not OK?

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Last Thursday evening I attended our local A and E. I was taken straight to majors and treatment started straight away. Because of what happened I was in a bed (sitting up) right by the nurses station.

A little latter the A and E ward sister spent 45 minutes organising a pizza delivery. Another 25 minutes ordering the pizza online. Then 30 minutes waiting outside the A and E department for pizza, than an hourish eating the damn thing in an A and E side room. It was well over two hours by the time she returned to the nurses station and actually fucking did some of her job (phone back an irate bed manager).

Some of this I could see (the side room was diagonally opposite to my bed). The bit when she was outside I couldn't see, but there were several phonecalls and other staff were having to lie / cover up and then explain that in fact she "wasn't in resus with a patient, she was outside waiting for the pizza".

Most of the staff shared the pizza in the side room, but none seemed to be in longer than 10 -15 minutes.

I'm pretty grumpy about it, because of the extra pressure it put on other staff who were working their socks off. Would it be unreasonable to add it to my feedback (which is overall mostly positive)?

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What is in all of this for you.. What are you getting out of this. If you were genuinely really ill, you wouldn't have been able to police all this nonsense and gossip with the nurses . It all sounds like a fantasy story.
Sisters in Ae do loads on the computer.. They're in charge so they do lots of updates, transfers, datixes, lots of discussions with the bed manager etc.
Again... You were treated and helped in this department . What's in it for you or are you just being malicious?
Btw no one cares if your partner is a 'medic' So what, let him start his own thread then with his own opinion.

I don't get this thread.

I'm a deputy sister in an extremely busy city ED and there's just no way on earth this would happen where I work! No way at all. Assuming you're mot exaggerating I think it's certainly worth complaining, though I would be careful to add in that the behaviour you're complaining about was of one particular nurse (named if you are able to) and that other numbers of staff were professional.

Of course it is not acceptable! Just because someone is a nurse, doesn't mean they can't be lazy alongside.

And for what it's worth I've been in ED resus as a patient twice in the last few years and was very able to sit up and observe/ read/ play around on my phone. To see me you would probably not be able to tell I was as sick as I was and I certainly didn't feel that unwell! I felt mostly bored

Nobody knows if this nursing sister was working over her hours or doing her job,using her computer. If she was waiting outside an a&e department do they have cctv. They do at our local hospital because of the drunks
Nobody knows is the key point, even if other staff were gossiping.
Drs and other hospital staff also pay tax and N.I. You could argue that their contributions are helping the NHS.
I have been taken to a&e after an accident and cannot even remember who was where and who was doing what. I didn't care I just wanted to be treated and out of pain The Dr who treated me was I think female but I know I'm alive because of her/ him..