Dancing nurses hate

[collateramadamge]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8245313/Fury-endless-showreel-NHS-staff-dancing-fooling-coronavirus-crisis.html

Are people seriously moaning about this? Are we turning on the nurses now?

[collateralmadanage]

me too l’m glad it’s not just me. I can’t think of any nurse I know that would think that crying video was appropriate either.

I also think people posting videos of their partners struggling with covid and giving their rendition is pretty crude too

[Bornlazy]

@Hermanhessescat me too l’m glad it’s not just me. I can’t think of any nurse I know that would think that crying video was appropriate either. I’m not sure what the rules are from the NMC but berating the public whilst identifying yourself as a nurse must sail pretty close to the wind.

I think the general public doesn’t fully realise the stress ICU nurses are under. I take my hat off to you it must be soul destroying. The fact that such a video as yours needs doing shows just how much you all care and how few people are making it back to the wards.

[YinMnBlue]

It must be the teeniest tiniest proportion of NHS staff taking part in any videos of any kind.

[Hermanhessescat]

Tbh I found the video of the nurse crying about food hoarding at the end of a night shift pretty cringeworthy too. I’ve felt like that but no way would I put it on YouTube. Equally I wouldn’t take part in a dance ! We’ve got video footage of some of our surviving patients being wheeled to the ward amidst clapping by staff - is that frivolous or is it morale lifting. No doubt someone would object !

[Groundedbyboris]

I honestly think the mental health of nurses is a concern when we finally get through this but tik tok videos are not the way to go.
Dance in private if u must just stop with the tik tok stars it's unprofessional

[Tonz]

I'm not turning on a whole profession I think for the most part nhs are great. They were great before covid they will be great after covid.
There was a video of a nurse crying in her car because she couldn't buy food.. That video hit home for a lot of people it sent us a message stop panic buying.
There was also a video of a nurse playing piano and singing Rise.. Was lovely actually.
Groups of nurses dancing about a corridor in a hospital is disrespectful of all we are trying to do to protect NHS.

[Bornlazy]

You do realise that working in the NHS doesn’t mean we don’t need to use its services too? If cancelled appointments/treatment is pissing off the general public then we are part of that too also having theses things cancelled. The powers that be went in hard with trying to prevent us ending up like Italy and maybe they took it too far but had they not done enough and we had ended up worse with the Nightingale Hospitals full would that have been better?

Nurses aren’t perfect and yes some of these videos are misjudged but I would highly doubt that anyone is being allowed to waste PPE in them. Some nurses will have PTSD following this event it is beyond anything that we thought we would ever have to do yet some people are turning on the profession as a whole for the actions of a few.

[Hermanhessescat]

Not a tiny percentage I think the words were when actually it's probably a few hundred if that, some of whom may well be medics and other hcps.
Not defending it but bigger targets to shoot atm

[Tonz]

@Pomegranatepompom u just posted about how some posters are very anti nhs. Where's the twisting I've done

[Tonz]

*@Hermanhessescat * Nobody actually said the majority either🙄

[Pomegranatepompom]

@tonz please don’t twist my words especially those on another thread.

[Tonz]

People are dying alone. No family allowed near them. Nobody said it was because the nurses were negligent. It is disrespectful to be prancing around making tik tok videos in that environment

[Tonz]

*@Pomegranatepompom * And some people love to accuse others of hating the NHS or having "beef" with them because we don't think it's very respectful some of the things they are doing.
If a dance routine is done on a break do it in the canteen or somewhere else not prattling about in a hospital corridor with ur PPE on. Oh wait can't do that it wouldn't make as good a tik tok video.
Stoo being so black and white yes nurses do a great job and yes nurses do shitty disrespectful thing. They are not above criticism.
Duh!!

[Hermanhessescat]

It is a minority. How many nurses in the nhs - 320,000 so >300,000 are taking part ? Clearly not.
And the poster said ‘nurses prancing around whilst patients are dying alone’ is suggesting neglect. Fits in with usual suggestion that we
are sat on computers looking at eBay and ignoring call bells whilst discussing our social lives.

[Pomegranatepompom]

@Hermanhessescat some posters on this board are very judgemental and have obviously decided to be negative at any opportunity.
There are also a couple of posters who are very anti nhs, can’t do right for doing wrong....

Thank god we are managing and have critical beds available.
More routine treatment will start up soon imo, I’ve already described how most services continued as normal in my trust.

[Tonz]

Not turning on all nurses just the ones who make up whole dance routines and perform them in full PPE then put them on social media. Hero worshipping is getting to some of their heads.

[ChewChewIsMySpiritAnimal]

It didn't take long for Mumsnet to stop hero worshipping the nhs and turn on them instead did it?

[Hermanhessescat]

The dance routine has nothing to do with investigations cancelled. That was the decision of hospital management- the two are totally unconnected. I too had an angiogram cancelled at the last minute. I understand why and was equally pissed off but do I blame a few nurses doing a dance on social media ? No.
I get frustrated seeing families out for nice cycle rides in the sun, people running, enjoying pleasant walks etc whilst I have to spend 12 hours in sweaty uncomfortable ppe but realistically that irritation is irrational. Blame the governments who have systematically underfunded the NHS for years and have made the wholesale shutdown of services so necessary.

[Tonz]

I think groundedbyboris said in a hospital where people are dying @Hermanhessescat no mention of nurses being negligent. Disrespectful yes.
Perhaps it's u who should get a grip. It's not a tiny percentage there are videos from lots of different hospitals

[Aberforthsgoat]

As someone who has a family member who had important treatment cancelled only for a lengthy dance routine to come out of the same hospital and go all around social media with people applauding about how fantastic it all is for morale, yes I'm pissed off.

[Hermanhessescat]

Groundedbyboris you need to get a grip. You actually think that 1000s of nurses are prancing around whilst patients are dying ? Heard it all now.
I suspect that most of that tiny percentage of the nhs workforce that did it were doing it before or after a shift, maybe even in their own time. We are used to doing courses etc in our own time so not unusual. I don’t necessarily agree with it but it’s ludicrous to suggest that nurses are wilfully neglecting patients just to become social media stars.
My unit is quiet now and we are near enough down to ‘normal’ numbers of level 3 patients yet last week we had almost 3 times as many. We still have plenty of staff redeployed from other areas so god forbid you visit our ward and see us not rushed off our feet or tripling up patients

[Groundedbyboris]

I think for me it's that so many people are trapped at home with no income. Kids education basically shit on. Kids in flats nowhere to play. Kids in abusive homes nowhere to escape. There are children commiting suicide. Cancer patients denied treatment all to protect the nhs. We have still to catch this virus we are just delaying it so nhs doesn't get overwhelmed. We will be paying for this for years to come.
Is it too much to ask then that the nurses be more respectful in their actions and have a bit of professionalism to not be making up dance routines and performing them in full PPE that so many colleagues are dying by not having any then sticking it on social media. People are dying alone in covid wards with prancing nurses in the corridors. Something's not right and right now I'm disgusted and wondering if it's all worth

[BatShite]

My cousin works in A+E in our local hospital and she is so annoyed at the many videos of nurses and such dancing. Says that the sheer amount makes it look like theres fuck all to actually do in a hospital..I can see her point

Shes also hugely annoyed with the 'clap for the NHS' parties. Which I definitely see her point..so many apparently 'staying home for the NHS' gathering in huge crowds to clap..no attempt at distancing made at all.

[Conflicted91]

Not that I support the Daily Mail but here's an article:

150,000 Brits will die an 'avoidable death' during coronavirus pandemic through depression, domestic violence and suicides
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8207783/150-000-Brits-die-coronavirus-pandemic-domestic-violence-suicides.html

I think these measures are setting us up to fail in other ways.
Not to mention the economic damage and the ill health that will bring with it. Hasn't it already been suggested that we are on course for even more Austerity? If lock-down doesn't end soon we are heading into a literal economic depression - the implications of which would be extremely dangerous to down play.

[ichifanny]

Ponchek inner city hospitals are pretty horrendous just now , I tubed 5 people in one shift the other day who all deteriorated and went to ICU . A lot of wards elsewhere in the hospital are quiet but critical care is grim .