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?

[Mlou32]

"The ones dancing are probably just in the rest of the hospital, away from the covid areas and not on the front line. But why some of them are dressed in much needed PPE who knows"

@flaxmeadow why should only people working specifically in covid wards get PPE? The "front line" staff aren't only those is ICU and the like. I work in a mental health inpatient ward. Many of our patients just don't understand the need for social distancing, hand hygiene etc. Many a time they will get up in your face while talking to you. Many of our patients currently don't appear to have COVID-19. However that doesn't mean that we should be unprotected; people can be asymptomatic. We are also having to nurse some positive patients in their own rooms to isolate them from others. Often whoever is providing that persons nursing care has to go into the persons room, reassure them, be with them due to their level of mental distress... They will come into your personal space, touch you, cough while you're in the room. We are at high risk of contracting coronavirus.

All hospital staff should be wearing PPE, no member of staff should be going to work and be expected to work unprotected, no matter what their job role or where they work.

[lunar1]

There is one on fb filmed in a care home, with residents. The residents look like they have no idea what's happening, two are in wheelchairs and are being spun around. One lady is being twirled around, a very blank expression the whole time. I would hazard a guess that she has dementia.

I reported it to fb, it's appalling to watch.

[DressingGownofDoom]

'don't understand why NHS staff aren't being furloughed on 80% pay given so many services/operations/screenings have been cancelled.”

That would be double funding. Public sector employees do not benefit from schemes like this.

[MLMsuperfan]

These videos would be in awful taste even if we weren't in a pandemic.

[TimeForChange123]

@Dressinggownofdoom. Yep. And the NHS costs already of paying staff who are shielding or self-isolating due to potential symptoms is massive.

[crosser62]

We did the Peter Kay thing today.
We got staff off their break, it took 10 minutes all told and it was such good fun that it lifted the mood massively.
It won’t be shown, we know but it was a wonderful relief for a short time after a shit storm from hell on Earth shift up until that moment.

If I told you how that shift had gone, you wouldn’t believe me. It was hell.

So, unprofessional, embarrassing, not good PR, so be it, we will accept that, we had 10 minutes off.
The daily mail can kiss our arses.

[TimeForChange123]

This thread isn't about you and your colleagues if it's not going on social media is it Crosser?

[Whaddyathinkofthis]

So, it turns out the NHS is just staffed by people after all.

Not 'angels'.

Just people.

[YesThatIsMyRealName]

@crosser62 Totally different if you're not posting it.

[Bubblebu]

Blackbear19

Give it time, my guess is the Nightingales will become isolation units leaving the regular hospitals to deal with non covid issues. Patients will be tested before they are admitted. As I say that's my guess.
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OK that is ok then. I will just wait with my cancer diagnosis, my neighbour will just wait with is heart attack, my other neighbour will just wait with their diabetes.
Beginning of March I was in an NHS hospital over hearing NHS management loudly re organise entrances to "dirty" and "clean" entrances. And then total radio silence from the NHS on cancer treatment and all other morbidities for 5 weeks, banging of saucepans every Thursday and all that whilst we are being told the incredibly expensive Nightingale hospitals cannot be staffed and are empty - and then we see NHS staff dancing in car parks.
No one doubts for a second the hard work they do.
But come on - THE ENTIRE UK HAS COME TO A STANDSTILL FOR THE SAKE OF THE NHS. PEOPLE DIE AT HOME BECAUSE OF THE NHS.
I have no idea what my cancer might look like if I ever am permitted to see my oncologist ever again.
Meanwhile my children's teachers are sending me multiple daily emails about how to home school my children starting with statements in bold about NOT EMAILING THEM OR CONTACTING THEM that they will not be marking or advising on school learning with parents etc and the email ending with IF YOU DO NOT SUBMIT ALL HOMEWORK online WE HAVE SET BY SUNDAY NIGHT WE WILL BE RECORDING THAT WITH THE AUTHORITIES.

I am just glad the entire economy has a bottomless pit of money for dancing NHS workers and teachers dictating to parents remotely how we should all be living (or deteriorating) at home and how we are failing to teach.

[YesThatIsMyRealName]

It is a total failure of management that people aren't receiving cancer treatment while nurses have time to dance about like total fannies.

Sorry you're suffering Bubblebu.

[HappyBirthdayQueenieMarm]

It takes time to learn and practice a routine..i find it daft and cringeworthy.

[Lynda07]

I don't object to them doing it in their own time. Practice before and after work, at lunch time, etc. Maybe had dance routine videos to watch at home. They probably thoroughly enjoyed doing it, I do not grudge them a bit of fun at this awful time and they are the people seeing and dealing with the worst of it.

Though it isn't something I'd necessarily bother to watch again I'd be mean to moan about it because I'm sure some people have found it entertaining.

[Bossycat]

My sister did one. She is not on a covid ward but has covid patients through her ward. They sent the routine out on what's app and then did it at shift change. My sister has only shared hers to friends on FB One of their young colleagues is not on it because she is currently in icu having caught covid almost certainly at work.

My other sister works on a covid ward. She has photos of herself in various forms of ppe on Facebook. She has had it seriously enough to be briefly hospitalised and has gone back to work although she is not fully fit. At the time she caught it there wasn't adequate ppe on her ward and staff knew they were getting exposed to it. People should lay off with the criticism.

[YesThatIsMyRealName]

"People should lay off with the criticism."

Why, because your sisters are ok with it?

[pocketem]

I find the dancing nurses (and receptionists and secretaries) really annoying. I'm a doctor but have been an inpatient myself and seen people messing about posting tiktok videos etc while patients were waiting with their call buzzers unanswered. Yes we know many hospitals are half empty at the moment due to all elective work being cancelled and people not coming into hospital for strokes and heart attacks, but if you are on an empty ward with nothing to do, you shouldn't be pretending to be a coronavirus hero and doing silly dances for publicity

[Emeeno1]

This is what happens when people are put on a pedestal. They fall off.

[ukgift2016]

I do not like the cringey NHS dancing videos, it shows how much spare time SOME nurses/doctors have. I also hate the constant photos nurses post of them in PPE gear "oo look at me"

Why can't the NHS now slowly start to allow non emergency operations to restart etc? I am getting fed up with this now.

[Bossycat]

YesThatIsMyRealName well if you are putting your own life on the line then maybe it is ok for you to criticise.

[BoBomian]

Agree with what pocketem & Emeeno1 said. The dancing nurses come across as a bit unhinged and using protective gear for the video is not ok. It is an outrage that cancer services and other essential health care has been basically made unavailable to the public, which is of corse the government's fault. I cannot see this policy lasting for much longer.

@Bubblebu thank your post it is important that you share it. I hope all will be well for you.

Like this, i cannot see the clapping to last for very much longer.

As an aside what do other European countries do with their cancer services?

[WoeIsMee]

I agree. I usually work in a hospital and I know there would definitely not have been time or tolerance for flipping dance routines before all this.

[ChickenNuggetsChipsAndBeans]

The thing is that the coronavirus situation is not equal. Families have been plunged into poverty, jobs have been lost, domestic violence has increased and some people are living entirely by themselves with no human contact for weeks on end with no end date in site.

Not to mention the ridiculous routines we do in supermarkets and footpaths to keep 2 metres apart. To follow the rules.

All of this to 'protect the NHS' and save lives.

Seeing healthcare staff doing dances in crowded corridors is very tone death. Surely if it is filmed out of working hours they should be obeying social distancing rules and not using up valuable PPE.

If in working hours - dont they have anything else to do?

[RoseGoldEagle]

I have no doubt the videos are filmed on breaks/at end of shifts, and imagine they’re fun to do and don’t begrudge that. But posting them on social media is just completely tone deaf given the situation we’re in where people are sitting at home unable to get medical help for non Covid related issues.

[Pomegranatepompom]

I’m on my way to work. I just wanted to mention all our cancer services are continuing as normal. We haven’t cancelled any treatment that is required.

[Sennetti]

Have to admit it’s changed my opinion of our nhs ‘angels’

I’m also getting a bit fed up of the ‘I’m nhs so make an exception for me’ stuff. Get it a lot in my job.