NHS staff dancing..

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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?

Absolutely.

Healthcare workers should be sitting in dark corners with their heads bowed at all times when not actively engaged in work. This includes break times.
They must also take personal responsibility for the cancellation of treatments, done to protect patients and staff alike and also to free space and staff in case it were needed to treat Covid patients. Not just personal responsibility, but total responsibility. It doesn't matter in the slightest if these decisions are way above their pay grade.

They must not also be worried and scared, after all what's professional about that! It's not like they're human or anything.

I really hope these health care workers aren't buying chocolate or wine with their essential shop either because that would just be beyond the pale!

“But, the point is, staff are clapping and cheering whilst others are dying...“
There are always people celebrating whilst nearby someone is dying, it’s life. As a nurse you can go from the depths of despair to joy, several time’s a shift. People not in the same line of work might not understand so personally, I feel most of the displays of dancing/silliness in uniform are unprofessional and shouldn’t be shared publicly.

It has nothing to do with professionalism.
The staff members are still human.

Do you not want them to have a personality/ smile/ laugh?

@Unusualbloodgroup

Obviously they must keep a straight face, keep their voices down and not smile or laugh within 24 hours of a death in the hospital. You know, it’s disrespectful to the dead and dying 😒

as a bit of a slap in the face to those who have effectively been sentenced to death at home

Every single member of staff in the NHS is fully aware that they will be redeployed as necessary and given the infection rate of staff it’s no small sacrifice that these people continue to turn up to work every single shift instead of just walking away. Most people are scared to go to A&E for non-covid illnesses at the moment but the staff still turn up - even the ones who have conditions that put them at higher risk but not high enough to isolate. Every single member of NHS I know is scared. Think about that for a moment.

I’m not given to elevenarifing it top trumps but given you started the hysterics (death sentence? Really? That’s not what the stats reflect in any group - if those stats were offered to you for surgery you’d take it) I’d have a good think about whose most at risk here.

So now the staff can only do nice things for patients? they're not allowed to try and cheer themselves up

Of course they can cheer themselves up, but don't put it on SM when people are dying in huge numbers where they work, and also make sure that precious PPE isn't wasted.

They are risking their lives to save total strangers every day

Isn't the point though that the ones doing the dancing are the ones with time on their hands not the ones working 12 hour shifts in itu with face mask sores on their faces?

It=or

Exactly @Unworthie

If it lifts spirits for them at this terrible time, I’m all for it. I cannot begin to imagine what they are going through and I am grateful to everyone who is on the frontline right now.

Of course YABU. They are people, not martyrs.

Having said that if my colleagues (NHS) wanted to do this I would do anything to avoid it. So, I've cracked it... you work in the NHS and you are trying to generate a backlash to stop Steven from Radiology pressuring you into a group performance of Agadoo.

(Not because nurses don’t dance and be silly sometimes, when it’s safe, but because some people think we are angels, not humans, and get worked up about it)

I posted this on the other thread.

As a nurse, I think these are completely tone deaf. As others have commented, you don’t perfect a choreographed routine during a 10 minute break. Misuse of PPE. And idiots sitting on and being wheeled about on NHS equipment - some of it looking very expensive. In hospital wards - you can’t possibly say patient care not affected - what if a patient had used their call buzzer but no one could get to their room as the staff were filming a bloody dance routine!! And don’t get me started on the long hair swinging about when the jury is still out on whether the virus can spread through hair (although I admit that’s a personal bug bear of mine not being tied back properly).

It’s nothing inclusive of patients or Carers and purely about “look at us”. If people cannot see that this is a MASSIVE PR fail then they need to apply some critical thinking. I suspect there will be some senior nurses on the war path today!!

If it keeps their spirits up it’s good.

It has nothing to do with professionalism

See, I'd disagree with that. Putting it on SM is unprofessional. Letting off steam with your colleagues privately isn't.

@AnnofPeeves please let's not start prefacing PPE with "precious". Its not precious, its cheap. It is only being made precious by government mismanagement.

I just switch off anything like this.

Ditto bloody tik-tok routines. 🤮

Definitely leave them alone. If you seriously think anyone in the NHS would abandon a patient in need to film a video then complain but you know they wouldn't.

If it's being made precious by the government, it's still precious. Or are you saying theres enough to go round?

But now after reading doggybiccys post I’m not so sure.

Everyone working with the public in the NHS right now is risking their lives @Thighmageddon

I think if a few minutes pratting about keeps them sane then good for them. But these dance routines which they must have spent ages rehearsing (please don’t try to tell me they are able to perform whole routines off the cuff with no planning or rehearsal), sometimes involving NHS equipment (one troupe of Diversity wannabes came gliding in on a fucking huge machine that I’m pretty sure wasn’t a floor polisher) are taking the piss.

Nope they're real people, with real lives and real fears doing a grand job.

Not life saving angels or robots.

Dance away. We are all doing what gets us through. No one I know who has been affected by this tragedy have anything but high praise for the staff they have felt with .

Nothing has been cancelled because staff are hanging around practicing dances. Get real.

There has ALWAYS been light heartednes in the blackest of times. FOREVER . What ever gets you through this.

The only contempt I felt was at Barnsley hospital where 200 or so stupid members of the public turned up to clap - and some stupid NHS workers came out to meet them and hug them. That was pathetic.

Dancing? Why not?

" felt with". ....,..

worst typo ever

"dealt with "

AnneofPeeves... and NHS staff are closer to that ED consultant who died than anybody else not in that sector so actually, we don't really get to have a valid opinion on this.