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?

[Tonz]

If a nurse burst into a wee dance at the end of a hard shift I'd kinda get it.
A group of nurses choreographing a dance, learning it, practicing it, doing it in a hospital corridor in full PPE, recording it then sticking it on social media arnt doing it just to cheer themselves up. It's attention seeking and it's disrespectful.
I only work in a supermarket but I doubt we'd be dancing if someone was dying in aisle 6(someone actually did die in aisle 6).
People will agree, people will disagree, we all have our own minds.
To me it's a shitty thing to do

[YesThatIsMyRealName]

"Standard MN and daily fail"

If you dislike it, why are you here?

I don't like flashy banners that count down how many days old my uniquely named baby is so I don't go on Netmums. If you don't like people (rightfully imo) criticising a group that have been utterly lauded recently, don't feel you have to be here, because people on mumsnet will generally tell it as they see it.

[vera99]

It's a global phenomenon like the virus. This guy doesn't like it.

[ponchek]

Where's the war zone? Quite a bit is coming out now from medical sources that a lot of docs are sitting around worrying about the disruption and catching up. And narry a virus patient in sight.

[EachandEveryone]

My colleagues posted one just recently. I literally cant stand them its attention seeking. We are paid to work not dance lije we are in the Thriller video. I dont kniw if Im just getting old or summat.

[Groundedbyboris]

I think all this hero worshipping has some thinking they are celebritys. Some not all

[NurseJaques]

I'm a nurse and I think the dancing etc videos are unprofessional and give totally the wrong impression.

A few have been posted on the staff FB group at my trust and loads of people including senior colleagues are commenting that they are 'amazing'

I'm actually working on a covid positive ward, we are not busy (6 patients today!) but I would not consider that a reason to embarrass myself, my profession and my employer! As nurses we cope with a lot and can share some dark humour but there should always be professionalism and respect for the people we are here to care for.

[MessInABottle]

I sort of feel anything overly jolly at the moment feels really fake and inauthentic. I can't get a video of a care home manager who seemed like her soul had just been broken out of my head.

What I don't like is the rounding on each other that I have seen happen (an example of this would be small charities sniping at big ones). Nb I work for a small organisation.

[Conflicted91]

I echo the others here when they say they find it inappropriate, immature and attention seeking.

Best case scenario, as somebody else here suggested, the staff are trying to communicate to us that they are being under-worked. Worst case scenario, they’ve all become part of the new era of social media narcissism. Perhaps a mixture of the two?

I’ve been to the QE In Birmingham twice since this lockdown. Once to observe - two weeks into lockdown, as hundreds of people across the world started reporting the phenomenon of “empty” hospitals and testing centres. Those videos can be found on Twitter #FilmYourHospital – contrary to media reports about said hospitals, which is a key point.

On the first occasion I went to observe Birmingham hospitals, I found them all to be underwhelmed. I even observed front & back ambulance entrances – underwhelmed.

3 days ago I had to go to A&E (for the 3rd time in my life), random strong abdominal pains for two days that I thought needed checked. I wasn’t impressed with my experience there. Regular A&E had been commandeered for Covid admissions, as I soon discovered when a nurse stopped me and held me at thermometer point (lol). She then redirected me to a side section that was the new A&E, it was a tiny place to be in and was not easy to social distance inside. 3 other people waiting. I had to wait 40 minutes for somebody to come to the desk and take my details. He was quite anti-social and dressed in casuals. Meanwhile a few nurses were just stood around talking. They were so busy talking that we patients had to keep opening the doors for other staff as nobody else could be bothered to man reception apparently. 2 hours later a doctor came, checked my vitals and said I could go, he had no answers for me. The doctor was friendly, two nurses I spoke to were very friendly & professional (not the same as the ones chit-chatting) and I spoke to a frustrated police officer.

Ironically, I was there for over two hours and could see straight into the large A&E reserved for Covid patients (via glass door) and yet not a single person was in there. Didn’t seem to stop the staff travelling through there and into our room though. Seems like such a waste of resources.

My one nurse friend told me her ward was very quiet before she took time off and she’s asking questions, but privately.

The “why” and “hows” deserve their own chapters.

[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 .

[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.

[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.

[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

[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

[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.

[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

[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.

[ChewChewIsMySpiritAnimal]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!!

[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

[Pomegranatepompom]

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

[Tonz]

*@Hermanhessescat * Nobody actually said the majority either🙄