Dancing nurses hate

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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?

I agree. Yes the dancing stuff is trite and naff but equally it didn't take long for the vitriol to start. There's something about nurses that antagonises certain people.

As @Didkdt and @TheFredericaQuartet both felt that there weren't sufficient warnings surrounding the post, I've reported my own post and requested that MN delete it.

Here is the link to what I posted which, IMO, is completely unacceptable conduct. What on Earth was this Dr thinking?! It's not remotely funny.

TRIGGER WARNING

https://twitter.com/shesinscrubs/status/1252647917824782336?s=21

I agree. Yes the dancing stuff is trite and naff but equally it didn't take long for the vitriol to start. There's something about nurses that antagonises certain people.

I disagree.

The people I know who are most upset by it are firstly HCP's themselves who are in the thick of it in Covid wards because of how they feel it reflects on them and their profession and secondly patients like bubble whom I think it's perfectly understandable to feel upset at having essential treatment cancelled and watching videos of the oncology team dancing in the car park.

I care about it, not really for myself but because they care about it and find it distasteful.

The haem/onc activity has not decreased where I work. Definitely not doing tik tok !
The surgical wards are quieter but they have been deployed. Ie bet helping on itu/haem.

Yes really didn’t take long @Hermanhessescat

Sorry for typos

I’m really sorry this has upset people - I think it’s a massive shame and misguided.

I'm personally incredibly grateful to the doctors and nurses and everyone who is working hard on the "front line". Those working in A&E/ITU/Respiratory wards must be having a horrendous time.

The question I have is re: the PPE they are wearing in the videos. Are they dancing around in new stuff, in which case is it not wasteful? Or are they dancing in stuff they've seen patients in? In which isn't there an infection risk? Or have I missed something?

Government has made a decision to stand down many elective treatments. The fact that staff are probably twiddling their thumbs as a result is not their fault. Maybe their local management could deploy them more effectively.

They look to be mostly young, usually working very hard for not a great reward and much debt incurred by their education. Can't some folk cut them a bit of slack? If fellow HCPs want to criticise them then that's fine by me but the rest just looks like too much time on their hands social media bullying - all egged on lest we forget by the bloody Daily Mail.

I thought the first videos and those “you stay at home for us” photos were fine, but it’s too much and all over the place. Also a bit odd all this dancing around with patients dying around them.

DeRigeurMortis I actually work in ICU and am 'in the thick' of it too. Tell me about 12 hours in ppe - been there, doing it.
I agree that it's unprofessional. I was responding to a comment upthread where somebody dismissed us as just being professionals getting paid for it, no better, no worse than anyone else. Over the last few years there's been a lot of nursebashing on mn. The recent press coverage of covid has opened peoples' eyes about nursing, especially in ICU which I felt was a positive thing. Then unfortunately it 's inevitably followed by accusations of nurses stood around, twiddling their thumbs and taking part in stupid dance routines whilst patients are being denied vital treatment. Those individuals constitute a fraction of the million plus people working in the NHS. Most nurses in non essential areas have been redeployed. The ones remaining in quiet areas will not be left idle I can assure you !

I hear you Herm

I do agree it doesn’t take much for the public to turn on us unfortunately , people don’t want to believe that we aren’t people delivered by god to serve on earth so that’s precisely when I saw people doing these videos I though ‘ oh no the public will hate us again’ it irritates me and I’m doing the job , I love a good laugh but feel we have a certain image to project to the public we need to protect .

I think that if some of you fullas find a moment where you make the effort to have some light hearted relief, and also to try and (okay, some might find it misguided) keep morale high amongst those out here, that's admirable.

(I wish you'd leave the haka alone though. . )

Kia kaha. Aroha nui.

Ffs can't they do anything right ? They are doing a stressful job and a bit of fun is great, when my dad was dying he'd have loved to see it.

To all the HCP's on here crack on you are all lovely dancing or not dancing approving or not (approving).

They/you are doing everything right. They/you are doing everything we are unable to do, that we'd love to be able to do, that we are so grateful is being done.

Focus on the love, which is huge, not the hate. And usually, the hate comes from a place of fear and anger at such loss of control, such loss of what we always took for granted.

I wouldn't expect to see nurses dancing about in corridors in a building where people are dying any more than I would expect to see care workers dancing outside care homes with people dying inside. Disrespectful and thoughtless.
I will still clap tonight because there are nurses and doctors working flat out in covid wards.
All nhs are being put on a pedestal not all deserve to be on but equally there is going to be a backlash not all nhs deserve to be dragged down with.
Show some respect for the dead and dying and dance at home

What if they can't go home? Many are self-isolating to keep their patients safe, and their family members.

I dunno, I've seen midwife and nurses act the clown to lighten a terrible moment, I've seen police who have been pulling pieces of people out of a disaster zone's rubble act the clown to try and cope with the hellish landscape they're in. Then the moment passes, and they're back to dealing as best the hell they can with what so few of us can, or are, or perhaps have any understanding of.

If that's what it takes to get them through - I'm not going to begrudge them that.

I was responding to a comment upthread where somebody dismissed us as just being professionals getting paid for it, no better, no worse than anyone else. Over the last few years there's been a lot of nursebashing on mn

I don't know if you're referring to me @Hermanhessescat. I was actually acknowledging nurses' skills, training and professionalism with my comments. I'll respect those who use their training and show compassion but I won't venerate them nor will I patronise them by clapping, sending them Easter eggs or liking their idiotic tik tok or facebook videos. And that applies to all HCPs.

@mbosnz lots of staff have self isolated and are staying in hospital accommodation so they can keep working.

Still shouldn't be dancing about in hospital corridors clearly practiced dances in full uniform and PPE while someone else records on a phone. Disgusting actually.
Could you imagine the uproar if people working in a funeral parlour burst into a song and dance outside while dead bodies were in the building.

@mbosnz lots of staff have self isolated and are staying in hospital accommodation so they can keep working.

Which in my book is pretty bloody heroic. Sorry if that is perceived as either idolising or fetishizing, let alone patronising, but it's intended to be sincerely, totally, appreciative of the sacrifices many (less than well paid for what they do) individuals are making.

Especially when they have very little kids.

I was responding to a comment upthread where somebody dismissed us as just being professionals getting paid for it, no better, no worse than anyone else. Over the last few years there's been a lot of nursebashing on mn

My remark was not 'nursebashing', it was realism. I too did a professional public-service role for ten years, involving a huge amount of stress, excess hours and working with 'challenging' people. Some of my colleagues were wonderful, others less so. We all worked very hard. Eventually I decided that I didn't want to do it anymore. So I left.

Every public service role has its upsides, rewards and downsides, otherwise no one would do them.

I don't get the supposed justification that people aren't entitled to think it's distasteful because some people are staying in hospital accomodation to carry on working. Yes, that's incredible, and not many people are saying that HCPs suck or aren't doing a great job, but similarly choosing to upload a video like those seems silly. I don't get why people 'arent allowed' an opinion without being made out to be a nurse hating, NHS loathing bell.

Wow, some of you are so self righteous. Standard MN and daily fail. Get over yourselves.
It is dancing. DANCING!!! Ah, but no one is allowed to have a smile/laugh, any downtime, morale boost. No no.

I have read most but admittedly not all of the thread and I can see most points of view.
I am a nurse in a community rapid response team - our referrals are about half what they usually are but mainly because the gps are dealing ( via video ) with patients who we normally see. We are so worried about these patients as they are so vulnerable and we don't want the to be be too frightened to call for help. We are calling every patient who we have seen in 5he past year to encourage them to still call us. The GPs are for the most part keeping themselves very safe.
We are going into the nursing homes - where the true horror is happening- residents are so so affected by this awful virus in so many ways as are the staff who are often vulnerable themselves. And the staff in those homes are in my view the most wonderful people - staying in the homes in many cases to protect the residents true sacrifice made by people who are on the minimum wage.
We are also getting people out of hospital much earlier than they would have been- many too early in my opinion but we are doing our bit to support them.
The district nurses are carrying on as normal but are obviously providing lots of end of life care care at home. We also admit and provide care for patients who are all COVID pos on some nurse led wards.
I am full of admiration for all of those who are carrying on as usual bus drivers supermarket workers refuse collectors etc etc.
I haven't seen the dancing videos as I only came on here for the first time in weeks.
I would say that my husband and son work from home since lockdown quiz sessions virtual drinks have been the norm for them.During their normal working hours
I wonder why NHS staff are expected to be so saintly?
Or teachers? Why are they held to such high account?
In my work an admin worker got in touch unbeknownst to any of the nursing staff next thing all kinds of charitable donations started arriving. We had to put a stop to that we are being paid we are fine much much more concerned about vulnerable children and people being put in awful positions. Seems to me this is driven by the media
Let's not lose sight of what's happening here an awful destructive disease - the focus on saving the NHS is misleading it really was only;to make sure the service was not overwhelmed which thank goodness seems so far to have worked.
But no cure no vaccine no end in sight please let's not all fall out over some videos