Since when did playing music through speakers be OK on a hospital ward?

[Hateam]

I'm at my wife's bedside on a neurology ward and twice now other patients have just put the speaker on their phone and played music.

The ward staff seem OK with this.

Recently I had this with my dad. When I spoke to the nurse there was an actually a noise policy and I asked the patient to put his headphones on.

I was lucky and had a side room when I was in
But there was a woman shouting the same thing over and over all night
My op had finished about 4pm
At midnight I got woken up to ask what I wanted for lunch the next day
Then the shouting started again
Between that and the obs there wasn't much sleep!

That's awful ☹️ The very best and worst people I've ever come across have been nurses....I hope you made a good recovery.

I should have said that the ward sister was horrific, but at the next hospital, it was honestly like a different universe, the treatment was so lovely. I’ve had a gazillion complications but I’m currently very healthy, just can’t turn right very quickly or the knee goes.

OP, I hope your wife makes a fabulous recovery and she's back home in no time 🌷

I agree with bringing back matrons, but on all wards. From my experience, nurses treat their work as secondary to their socialising.
I had my hip replaced in 2012, when I was 42 (it's due again soon and I'm dreading it).
I was on a ward of 6 beds, all elederly people, so I didn't have to videos/music/mobile calls. On the night of my morning op, I couldn't move without help and I woke up needing the bed pan. I rang the call button, a nurse eventually came, even though I was in sight of the nurses station and she looked over at me. She asked what I wanted and I said I needed help and a bedpan as I was desperate for a wee. I'll be back in a minute, she said. Then she returned to the nurses station and stood chatting. She even moved out of my view as I kept looking across in desperation, but I could still hear her chatting!
Ten minutes later and too late by that point, she came back. Then she was arsey with me for having wet myself and the bed! She said I could have waited and she wasn't that long! (I'd had an epidural and my feeling wasn't quite back at that point. I was also on a heavy dose of morphine. If I'd been totally with it, I'd have complained!)
I apologised profusely, but I felt embarrassed and ashamed as she moaned and tutted while cleaning up! After she'd done, she stormed back to the nurses station to resume her socialising and I was left upset and just wanting to go home.
It's disgusting that a lot of nurses clearly have no compassion for the people who they are supposed to be caring for!
Nurses need proper old school training, proper uniforms and someone older than 20, in charge of the wards every shift!
It's obvious on here and from other personal accounts I've been told, that it isn't a rare thing these days. And it's a disgusting state of affairs.

Well, they won't be donating their brain, as obviously they don't have one.

And they don't have a heart, as they don't seem to consider other people.

But anything else should be up for grabs, no questions asked. 😁

That gave me the chill reading that! At least when inconsiderate people do that in public there is a chance to move. In a hospital bed🙈🙈🙈 you are stuck, feeling crap and then seething at the bad manners of those around you. I hope your wife gets out soon.

Well, clearly some people disturbed others...

I'm glad I'm old. I'd have said something and turned it off again.

At least any hospital stay I've had was pre-mobile and tablet days, thank god

Did you complain to anyone?

That's old school!

I had a bloke doing this on my bay during the week . It seems everything has fallen apart and anyone isn't a woman can do what they like . Just watching TV on laptop without a care for anyone else . Blokes can do what they like in hospital now , even getting changed without closing curtains .

Both of these people were women.

I wonder if there’s ever been a study to show the correlation between IQ and media tastes. I mean, you never hear anyone blasting a decent podcast or a bit of Fleetwood Mac do you? It’s always shitty grime music or Tik Tok shite.

that's more your class, culture and background, rather than intelligence

And age

Very rude and inconsiderate.

I am the Fleetwood Mac blaster.
🖤✌️🖤

But even I wouldn't do it in a hospital ward!

Oh God! What a horrible nightmarish situation, being marooned in a hospital ward, feeling unwell and exhausted yet prevented from getting any rest. It sounds like torture!

I hope that I don't ever need a stay in hospital, as I don't think I would cope. I would be the person who insists on discharging themselves from hospital against doctors' advice at 4.00am because they've been driven mad by sleep deprivation and lack of peace and quiet.

Or they're frightened of confrontation , complaints or being lamped by scratters.

Bring back Matron is what I say. Hattie Jacques would not have stood for any of that bullshit on her ward.

I think most people are OK and generally decent but the dregs of society are often concentrated in places like hospitals so you notice them more.

Really? This has been happening for years now and getting worse all the time in all areas of society. People have become extremely selfish and self-absorbed. I see this constantly on public transport, if you say anything you risk abuse or worse.

I do say something on public transport. Frequently. I just can’t live in a world where I am too scared to do that, so I think fuck it. I’m polite, but I do ask people to use their headphones etc. If you don’t stick up for yourself, and other people, then the barbarians win.

I didn't believe (my naivety) that this extended to neurology wards in hospitals.

Yanbu staff should be asking them to use headphones. I was in a&e a while back and a man was playing his iplayer programme really loudly! And staff asked him to turn it down.

^This exactly. A nurse working on a neurology ward should know that this isn't acceptable in any shape or form