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anyone want to sign this petition regarding the whistle blowing nurse who has been struck off?

69 replies

SnortyBartFast · 01/05/2009 22:33

whistle blowing nurse

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suwoo · 01/05/2009 22:36

Signed.

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SnortyBartFast · 01/05/2009 22:36

further information

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edam · 01/05/2009 22:40

Had signed already. Serious dereliction of duty by the NMC - not to mention an insult to all the patients who were treated so terribly by this nurse's 'colleagues'. And an insult to decent nurses, too.

Greensneeze · 01/05/2009 22:42

signed

PaulaYatesBiggestFan · 01/05/2009 22:51

signed

blueshoes · 02/05/2009 09:00

Signed. Disgrace that the nurse was struck off. Whistleblowers deserve special attention.

blueshoes · 02/05/2009 09:01

special protection

Yurtgirl · 02/05/2009 09:06

signed

goingslowlyroundthebend · 02/05/2009 09:20

Signed. She should never have been struck off. What she did was brave and showed real care. Those in the wrong are simply hiding behind patient confidentiality. Since when is patient confidentiality an excuse for neglect?

kidcreoleandthecoconuts · 02/05/2009 09:35

I'll probably get flamed for this but....what did she expect?
She shouldn't have gone to the media. She was a senior nurse and should have taken up her concerns about certain members of staff with the ward manager,the trust etc.
I do feel sorry for her but she was unprofessional.

blinks · 02/05/2009 10:16

she did.

the managers fobbed her off.

there is already legislation to protect whistleblowers but it doesn't stop the NMC striking her off.

blueshoes · 02/05/2009 12:18

Blinks, I meant special protection even in the context of self-regulation by professional bodies such as the Nursery and Midwifery Council.

blueshoes · 02/05/2009 12:19

Nursing

lyrasdaemon · 02/05/2009 14:13

signed

onagar · 02/05/2009 14:36

What kidcreoleandthecoconuts said.

Apparently she was so sure that reporting it wouldn't help that she didn't try very hard to do so.

Though I think some others should be struck off too for letting these things go on.

blinks · 02/05/2009 14:37

i agree blueshoes.

ShinyPinkShoes · 02/05/2009 14:39

I won't be signing it.
She filmed vulnerable, sick people without the prior consent of them and their families

She continued to film rather than to whistleblow whilst these poor people were receiving substandard care instead waiting until filming was complete.

I agree that the alarm needing raising- she could at any point have contacted her union or the NMC but she didn't.

I think she deserved to be struck off and she should have expected to be.

Sidge · 02/05/2009 14:42

I won't sign it.

She has acted unprofessionally and IMO didn't try particularly hard to whistlebow, she took the 'easier' option of filming undercover for the media. Not the way to go about it and contravenes the Professional Code of Conduct.

Paolosgirl · 02/05/2009 14:57

Nothing would have changed - this was a poorly performing HA, who had ignored her complaints before. Bringing this to the media's attention has brought this shocking treatment into the public domain and for that she should be commmended.

The NMC should have backed her and should now be screaming from the rooftops about the state of healthcare in some areas, and be demanding better management and better funding for frontline services.

I've signed the petition happily.

blueshoes · 02/05/2009 17:43

Exactly, Paolosgirl.

edam · 02/05/2009 17:43

That's rubbish, sidge. Undercover filming is not 'easy', for starters. The nurse exposed shocking, degrading and appalling treatment - it's the ward managers/sisters who should be struck off, and everyone else who failed to speak up or do anything about it at all.

Panorama did gain consent from the families of everyone who was shown - the consent thing is a red herring. Just an excuse trotted out by those who would be more comfortable if no-one knew what had really gone on.

The public is entitled to know about hospitals that abuse their patients - for many reasons but most importantly so that they can make sure their own relatives aren't treated there.

Northernlurker · 02/05/2009 17:50

Whistleblowing doesn't usually include secretly filming your patients at their most vulnerable. I certainly won't be signing this because I firmly believe she should have been struck off. Confidentiality is paramount and there are other avenues for her to have explored. It wasn't necessary for her to do what she did. That the families consented after the event is the red herring imo - she had no business USING her patients in the way she did. Of course the care was lamentable but I am yet to meet a nurse ( I work in a hospital) who has said they feel she was justified. Saying 'nothing will change' is a pathetic excuse. You get in there and make it change but you don't abuse have to abuse the trust and privacy of the patients as the agent for that change.

MollieO · 02/05/2009 18:19

Look at others in the NHS who have whistle blown. Look at the story of the daughter visiting Stafford hospital who did report - to everyone - and was completely ignored. Just think about how many people needlessly died there. I have signed and I fully support her actions. I ended up nearly dying because of appalling nursing when I was in my 20s.

edam · 02/05/2009 18:40

no-one was bothered about the human dignity of these poor patients when they were being abused by nurses, were they?

It's a flaming cheek for anyone to start bleating about filming damaging these patients.

DorotheaPlenticlew · 02/05/2009 18:41

Had signed already. Still happy to have done so after reading this thread.