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NHS staff dancing..

633 replies

Whitefeather01 · 23/04/2020 09:09

I couldn't see another tread on this. But if there is, please link it.

What's your opinion on this? AIBU to think this is in very bad taste?

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malificent7 · 23/04/2020 13:31

I am training to work for the NHS and newsflash...people die all the time. It is sad for everyone...but staff rely on humour...including dark humour to survive.

malificent7 · 23/04/2020 13:31

So a bit of dancing is good for morale

Port1aCastis · 23/04/2020 13:33

The NHS saved my life when I spent 2 weeks in the ITU with septic shock I lost part of my anatomy and was very very ill but they were absolutely brilliant and saved me and I will always be grateful to them. Yes they can dance I'd dance with them if I could and I will not slag them off because without them I would not be here and that is a fact

Nicknacky · 23/04/2020 13:38

So is it the dancing itself that boosts morale? Then don’t put it on SM when we are in the midst of a global pandemic when family members are dying alone, scared and families are left coping with the trauma of both that and not being able to grieve in the “normal” way.

LunaHardy · 23/04/2020 13:39

Wow... Some of you are BORED bored. Honestly get a grip.

Nicknacky · 23/04/2020 13:40

Luna Thanks for that well thought out and considered contribution.

MrsKypp · 23/04/2020 13:41

Dancing is indeed great for morale.

I love dancing, but I really don't think choreographed dance routines showing nurses in uniform at work in hospital during a pandemic is appropriate.

And if it's considered humour / dark humour to do a bad imitation of Maori traditions then that is disgusting.

malificent7 · 23/04/2020 13:43

The dancing isnt dark humour...that's the light humour stuff!

Thighmageddon · 23/04/2020 13:44

The NHS saved my life when I spent 2 weeks in the ITU with septic shock I lost part of my anatomy and was very very ill but they were absolutely brilliant and saved me and I will always be grateful to them. Yes they can dance I'd dance with them if I could and I will not slag them off because without them I would not be here and that is a fact

I've been in itu too and the nursing care I had there was really good. I've also had some appalling treatment from some doctors and nurses over the years due to having chronic illnesses. Some of the treatment from them has left me with damage in my body because I was made to feel like a fraud and belittled. Fortunately my current team is fantastic but I'm still not going to be clapping and I'm certainly not dancing alongside them either.

paap1975 · 23/04/2020 13:48

One of my closest friends is an intensive care nurse working on a Covid ward. If taking all her clothes off and wlaking up and down the street naked and screaming made her feel better, then I'd be right behind her. I don't think you can imagine the stress these people are under

MrsKypp · 23/04/2020 13:50

@malificent7

When people are suffering horrifically, people are dying and others are abandoned to a dreadful fate due to being in a care home or neglected by 111, the last thing we want to see is nurses AT WORK IN HOSPITAL, IN UNIFORM doing a dance routine that clearly took time to choreograph learn and film.

It's insensitive in the extreme. Inappropriate and I am shocked they even did it.

Have a dance, distract yourself from the horrors by all means. Joke amongst yourselves BUT KEEP IT PRIVATE.

It's the posting online I am against. And that it was in a hospital. Just so wrong.

missyB1 · 23/04/2020 13:59

Its not the dancing that’s the problem!
NHS staff should do whatever the fuck it takes to get through the day, seriously go for it! BUT don’t assume the public need or want to see it. Think about the image you portray of your profession, and think about how your behaviour impacts the feelings of patients and their relatives.
Christ you wouldn’t think NHS staff would need that explaining to them! And we noticed that it’s not the cleaners or the porters desperately trying to be cool and look for attention?

Hennypenny95 · 23/04/2020 13:59

Wow! Leave them alone! They're risking their own lives day in, day out to save our sorry asses. If they want to have a muck about and a dance or whatever, to stop them all going insane from watching all the agony and death, bloody well let them.

Chucklecheeks01 · 23/04/2020 14:06

It's really simple, if you dont like it, dont read about it in the daily mail or don't watch it on social media. Turn it off.

AnnofPeeves · 23/04/2020 14:09

Yet let them dance. But don't put it on SM. I'm not sure what's so hard to grasp about that. It's unprofessional. When I was working clinically, if we'd filmed ourselves in clinical areas, dancing in our work clothes and pratting about with medical equipment, then put it on social media, we would have been disciplined. And that was not in the middle of a tragedy where thousands of additional people, including colleagues, were dying. NHS staff should uphold the same standards now.

Theworldisfullofgs · 23/04/2020 14:12

Op - are you Katie Hopkins? Saw she was trying to stir this up on twitter.

Who care if they dance? If it enables people to relieve stress, great.

Kazzyhoward · 23/04/2020 14:12

Wow! Leave them alone! They're risking their own lives day in, day out to save our sorry asses. If they want to have a muck about and a dance or whatever, to stop them all going insane from watching all the agony and death, bloody well let them.

If they didn't post it all over social media, everyone would leave them alone. But that's not what they want is it? They are doing it for attention-seeking, so they're bringing criticism upon themselves.

I don't give a shit what they do behind closed doors, but when I'm literally watching my OH die because the local oncology dept have closed down and stopped his essential/urgent cancer treatment, I really don't want to see it!

Nicknacky · 23/04/2020 14:16

So people that think it’s a good thing, I assume you would have thought the same if firefighters at Grenfell had put dancing videos on SM? Or police officers at Manchester Arena?

After all, it was an incredibly stressful time for those who were involved and maybe it would have boasted their morale. Or what that have been inappropriate due to people dying?

So what’s the difference here?

papiermaches · 23/04/2020 14:24

The NHS looks after us from cradle to grave, and it did the same for my parents and my grand parents. My children were born in the NHS and have health conditions managed by the NHS. They can dance as much as they like.

Deepmidwicket · 23/04/2020 14:25

ODFOD

Theworldisfullofgs · 23/04/2020 14:25

The difference is that was short term stress.

This is long term chronic stress. It affects you different. It actually inhibits your immune system and can impair the effect of vaccines. So actually anything that helps get through an ongoing longterm situation, great.

Maybe focus energy on those that didnt learn the lesson from the 2016 pandemic exercise, rather than those coping with it.

Is it criticise a public sector worker week? It was teachers yesterday.

Theworldisfullofgs · 23/04/2020 14:26

*differently

LunaHardy · 23/04/2020 14:26

@Nicknacky do you mean boosted? Not sure boasted is the right word here.

Nicknacky · 23/04/2020 14:28

Emergency service staff at major incidents will disagree that they are affected by “short term stress”. Don’t underestimate the trauma they went through.

My own dad was at Lockerbie and it affected many many of his colleagues for years.

Oh and I’m a emergency service worker, by the way.

Nicknacky · 23/04/2020 14:29

Luna Sorry, that was a typo, it should have been “boosted”