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?

[DontStandSoClose]

My mum is a nurse and is currently off with the virus, which she caught at work through lack of PPE incidentally. Her department has made one which she saw shared on fb, she’s going mad. She finds it embarrassing and unprofessional. She also finds the clapping nauseating too (especially when the people clapping voted Tory, slow clap indeed!). I guess maybe because she’s an older nurse at 67 she’s there to do her job, not dick about dancing with the “young-uns”. She’s not a fun sponge in real life, just professional at work!

[XmasRibbons]

@MorganKitten

That could be true they could be doing them the end of their shifts however I'm guessing that is just an assumption you've made.

It doesn't make it any less disrespectful, especially if people are dying on those very same wards. It doesn't mean that some form of rehearsing wouldn't have been involved. I'm sure your average ICU staff member would want to rehearse a dance routine at the end of their shift, especially when they are seeing horrific things and have families and children to get home to...

[blueshoes]

Clearly we are ready to lift lockdown if there are vast empty rooms and corridors in hospitals filled by prancing NHS staff who have no one to look after.

Very unprofessional. They should get back to work.

[implantsandaDyson]

The radiographers at one of the cancer centre hospitals near me did one yesterday. it was filmed in the carpark. I've been in that particular hospital department numerous times with three different relatives. Usually the staff don't have a minute, they had a fair few minutes yesterday to perfect their routines. I honestly don't think it even occurred to them how bad it looks and how upsetting it can be for people who are maybe too nervous to follow up a worry they have. I think what made it worse was the fellow staff from other hospitals discussing in the comments how they could better the routine when they were next on shift together. Totally tone deaf, my teenager would have more sense about what she puts on social media.

[MorganKitten]

@XmasRibbons actually I’m not assuming anything as I know several ICU workers. Some in videos. So I know it’s done after shifts, videos are sent in whatsapp groups to learn it.

As I said a lot of them aren’t going home to their families to protect them. Several are stayin in hotels, with other icu nurses... perfect time to practice and let off steam.

[TheKrakening3]

Saw one of a n OT nurse yesterday in scrubs who was no doubt seeking out the adoration and “you’re an angel” fb comments. She was in a room outside the OT and on the video link screen behind her you could clearly see the surgeons operating on a portly middle-aged man. She named her hospital so if the man was your loved one unconscious on the operating table you would easily know it was him. Appalling.

[RigaBalsam]

She named her hospital so if the man was your loved one unconscious on the operating table you would easily know it was him. Appalling.

Surely that would be gross misconduct.

[Daffodil101]

Crikey that’s awful

[SarahTancredi]

I dont know enat to think really.

I mean the press paint a picture of overwhelmed warzones I mean it's why we are stuck at home bored skint and worried about next months rent, the police are so overwhelmed with reports of breeches of lockdown that in one district they asked the public to confront each other instead.

Yet every days theres selfies and video blog rants and tik tok videos.

Which is it. You are rushed off your feet everything's a mess and patients are flooding your wards or you are actually that quiet you can prance about in large groups and post on twitter ?

I'm telling myself that they are just taking a well earned breather and we dont own every second of their time and on a break they are free to do what they want etc and if I saw what they saw every day I'd cherish a few second to have a laugh. So personally I'm not fussed.

But its probably not the best idea given how the public are feeling about now. Especially as so many had surgeries cancelled and they cant see their loved ones

[TheKrakening3]

Just on my previous comment re the patient being shown on the table, it was an American nurse in a US hospital so not the NHS.

[Dandyish]

I don’t like these videos. I agree they’re very unprofessional.

We’ve been repeatedly told of the severity of the issue and told to save the NHS by staying at home and not going to A&E unless in dire need. In response to that, chorus lines of dancing nurses in PPE on social media is offensive.

We’re in the middle of a huge health crisis, not just because of covid-19 cases but because of all the cancelled appointments and surgery for other health conditions. We don’t need ‘fun’ nurses who have a big social media following, we need nurses who take their roles and responsibilities seriously.

[Mummyoflittledragon]

There was a thread on here very recently about how everything has been cancelled, yet a lot of hospitals are almost empty. The message was drs and nurses are struggling to socially distance just hanging around. These videos are giving us the same story. People at work with nothing to do.

[XmasRibbons]

@MorganKitten

You don't know that it is the same for all hospitals though therefore it is an assumption. They very well could be doing it during shifts in the same wards as Covid-19 patients.

Regardless of whether the hospitals are empty or not it is not a good image at all and is causing people to wonder if the lockdown is totally necessary.

It's not really even about the videos it is about what they potentially represent. Which is empty Hospitals, and staff with nothing to do. People are wondering is it worth all of the cancelled treatment and avoidable deaths. Loss of income, jobs and quality of life nationwide?

[BovaryX]

Operations cancelled. Reports of people unwell at home and struggling to breathe being actively discouraged from getting medical assistance. Nurses dancing en masse and posting it on social media. WTAF is going on? If you think this is appropriate? You're delusional.

[PelicanDeuce]

@Bubblebu I am so sorry. I’m another cancer patient facing uncertainty.

We can’t go on like this. There needs to be some separation of healthcare.

I find these videos distasteful.

[Didkdt]

Just to add to my earlier comments we're not seeing this grom mainland Europe nurses. Just their heartbreak and frustration

[Hugt]

Also find them distasteful at times and am seeing them being shared lots by people trying to prove its all overated and that hospitals are empty

[BovaryX]

The implication of these videos is that nurses have time to perform haikus because regular surgeries have been cancelled. People have been aggressively discouraged from seeking medical help and are at home struggling to breathe while nurses are performing synchronised dances for social media likes. The slogan is 'protect the NHS.' But any functioning healthcare system should be protecting its patients What is going on?

[BovaryX]

www.indy100.com/article/uk-nurses-haka-new-zealand-maori-tavistock-nhs-9477721

[BakedCam]

If a group of people went to a local park to do a dance routine, likely they'd be having a visit from their local police.

It is the same seeing the weekly clap outside hospitals in their scrubs and uniforms.

While we all stay at home, 'saving the NHS'

It will be this that will cause unrest.

[BakedCam]

So from hero worshipping to polite requests from NZ to cease.

It was bound to move on to something else after the clapping.

[LilacTree1]

Morgan “ Several are stayin in hotels, with other icu nurses... perfect time to practice and let off steam.”

Yes. But they can do that on their time and share the results on their time.

Danicing, in uniform, in hospital, just says “not busy” which is horrendous for those who’ve had treatment cancelled.

Like I said, they might be trying to tell us something. So it’s good to discuss it and express concern on social media.

[WandaFish]

I find them unprofessional too.

[EmpressMcSchnozzle]

What's the betting that before too long, there'll be stories about how, if staff have time to make up these sorts of routines, and the Nightingales AND "ordinary" hospitals are standing empty, then people can't possibly be as ill as all that, and now's just the right time to flog the NHS off to the American healthcare companies....

I don't think the virus getting out was deliberate, but the response to it in the UK and the US in particular has had my jaw on the floor. If anyone wants to look for a conspiracy, there's one to investigate (including who's really behind all those "Take America back" rallies...

[BovaryX]

haka not haiku

If a group of people went to a local park to do a dance routine, likely they'd be having a visit from their local police

The profound dysfunction at the heart of the NHS is being made explicit. 'Protect the NHS' is a symptom of the dysfunction. A functioning healthcare system should protect its patients. Before this pandemic, the UK had the worst cancer survival rates in the developed world. What will the cancelled operations do to its already dismal record? These videos are dire. Which clown thought they were appropriate?