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?

1000% it is disrespectful! If they want to do tik toks do it in their own time OUT of uniform!

When I was trained we was told to take our uniform of before even leaving the hospital...

Just like the police keep going to the hospital to clap and put their sirens on full blast on a Tuesday! People are DIEING inside why do they want to hear all that when they know their life is coming to an end!!

There is another thread going now with quite some vitriol directed at the op who dared to voice this. I am pleased to see fellow HCP find it unprofessional and insensitive too.

I think that cancer treatments are a delicate balance. My DH got away with 1 infection during 6 months of chemo for lymphoma. Seeing how quickly the much maligned local A&E could move for a patient with a temperature of 37.6 made it clear how vulnerable patients on chemo are even to minor infections!

I would hope that the oncologists and haematologists are trying to decide what the least worst options are for their various patients. Which I suspect isn't easy given the years of study needed to create the current protocols.

I am genuinely glad it’s quieter than expected and am glad if nurses are getting a bit of hero worship. I completely agree with their protected hours for shopping and their discounts and even think the clapping is nice (not the fireworks though). The dancing in PPE though - insensitive. I know it’s not these nurses fault that cancer treatment etc is affected but it just doesn’t look good.

Im a nurse and cringe at the selfies some of my colleagues posting with eye masks and surgical masks on. Some of them are the laziest, rudest people who should never have become nurses.
Just goes to show how fake social media is!

Bubblebu

so sorry this is happening to you, its a shite state of affairs

@worlsmee

"No, but many thousands of patients have been told ‘sorry, you can’t come in for your treatment/operation/investigations/counselling/physio because we haven’t time or capacity"

It's nothing to do with not having the time or capacity. Any non essential, non time critical procedures and appointments are being cancelled to reduce footfall to the hospital. It's to try and stop the spread of COVID-19. People are being advised to still go to the hospital if it's an emergency.

I do think that the situation is cringe however. Although I think daft videos on social media are cringe in general!

The time to do this is when this is under control, not during the pandemic.

@Smithtylater someone I trained with posted one last night with some sort of Facebook frame about working on the frontline and saving lives. She works in a community std clinic, I am not even sure they are seeing patients at the moment.

I think it has to stop now, it’s not professional and the pile on to anyone who voiced this is indicative of the herd hero worship of the NHS. It’s dangerous and almost cult like.

I am passionate about the NHS and I work for it but if people shut down any discussion of what it might not be doing well then it’s a reflection of their own poor critical thinking.

Nurse admits the virus is a lie

What!!!

Anybody that believe's this is as stupid as the people making these statements.

Hospital's are empty because the lockdown is working.

I am a nurse as well and hate the videos. It looks unprofessional and looks like staff are wasting PPE. I am sure they are not but it just doesn’t send the right message out.

Someone said it up thread, sorry I don’t remember who

A lot of us are very respectful and grateful to the NHS and the concept of the NHS is virtually sacred

But actually when i think of things that have gone wrong just in my immediate family (as well as things that have gone right) and the fact that its so difficult to get doctors appointments and referrals etc in ‘normal’ times, actually....I don’t know why ive been so grateful for things that have gone wrong!!!!

I’m due to give birth next week and if any of the midwives start doing some ‘TikTok’ routine I will be walking out and giving birth at home down the road

Why can't the NHS now slowly start to allow non emergency operations to restart etc?

DH is a service manager at our local hospital and this is imminent there. They've also been able to keep a number of cancer services going throughout.

@unusualbloodgroup i agree with you. None of my colleagues actually work in ICU/critical care. They work in primary care/community settings/ a few general wards/ mental health and orthapaedics. I am on maternity leave at the moment but communicate with them daily and all of them have mentioned how quiet it is, how they are not seeing any patients only phoning them. So why are they posting pictures all donned up in full PPE when all they have done all day is rearrange a few prescriptions!

As a nurse, I think these are completely tone deaf. As others have commented, you don’t perfect a choreographed routine during a 10 minute break. Misuse of PPE. And idiots sitting on and being wheeled about on NHS equipment - some of it looking very expensive. In hospital wards - you can’t possibly say patient care not affected - what if a patient had used their call buzzer but no one could get to their room as the staff were filming a bloody dance routine!! And don’t get me started on the long hair swinging about when the jury is still out on whether the virus can spread through hair (although I admit that’s a personal bug bear of mine not being tied back properly).

It’s nothing inclusive of patients or Carers and purely about “look at us”. If people cannot see that this is a MASSIVE PR fail then they need to apply some critical thinking. I suspect there will be some senior nurses on the war path today!!

Everyone's a media star now.
I have a great appreciation of the work that nurses and doctors do but this is just tone deaf. The dancing might be a bit of light relief for the staff but I'm not interested in seeing it.

It’s reassuring me to see that some others think the same way, I don’t know I just feel really shocked by some of the stuff on social media and annoyed because it makes us look like clowns instead of skilled professionals.

I have been saying this on another thread (which I had to hide), it’s not patient centred and it’s all about the staff.

I’m an icu nurse and only the other day I cringed when yet another tik tok video appeared on our local news programme. Funny to start with, now just unprofessional and tasteless.
On the other hand it has been incredibly busy, never seen anything like it and the only reason our unit managed was because we had loads of theatre staff shipped in to support us. I also know that the respiratory wards here have been mad.

I think when we’re being constantly told to ‘save’ an overwhelmed NHS, yet some nurses have enough spare time to get on with something like that it doesn’t come across well really.

Nurse admits the virus is a lie . Its all making my head spin and want to do a lot more research as there's always 2 sides to this?

Watch some footage of Italy. That should sort you out.

As a nurse I hate the videos- as someone else said it’s so unprofessional and I’m surprised the NMC hasn’t had anything to say about it.My Facebook feed is filled with people posing in masks and basking in the glory of comments telling them how amazing they are and thanking them for “all they’re doing to help save lives” . I know where these people work. They are soo far from the frontline.
Incidentally not all cancer treatments have been cancelled . I’ve been redeployed and chemo is still going ahead, at least in my trust.

I find much of the current display on social media excruciatingly embarrassing.

NHS: the NHS is made of a mixed group of individual employees. Some will be highly altruistic, the majority will be average, well-motivated individuals and a few will be lazy/unpleasant. Much like any other professional grouping. Thanks, yes. Hero worship, no.

Clapping: It was fine the first week, a nice gesture. But it is now non-sensical. What is the point? Who is listening? Give money to NHS charities or other relevant charities instead.

Individuals: many of the videos by individual NHS workers begging for support/help/PPE have led to hospitals being swamped by random donations that they don't need and cannot handle.

Posers: yes, I am reviving an 80s word for selfie-takers. Stop being so attention-seeking and do what you need to be doing rather than sharing pictures of yourself in your uniform. Or, if you are off-duty, go home and relax. If you are genuinely an angel you wouldn't be seeking kudos, would you?

Social media 'snitches': Everyone knows the rules. You don't know everybody's situation. Remember this is how totalitarian societies work - self policing, snitching and fear - is that really what you want to 'do in the war'? Have some compassion and humbleness.

Have a good day everyone!