Posted on 08/31/2009 12:42:42 PM PDT by Schnucki
"Dreadful, neglectful, demeaning, painful and sometimes downright cruel.” Those are the words used by Claire Rayner, herself a former nurse, to describe the way many nurses today treat elderly patients. Introducing a report by the Patients Association last week, she described shocking standards of nursing care in hospitals up and down the country.
The stories are horrifying — old people neglected, lying in their own faeces and urine, hungry, thirsty and afraid, while nurses chat callously at the nursing station, indifferent to the suffering around them.
Since the report was published the Patients Association has been flooded with hundreds of calls of support. “I am sickened,” Rayner said, “by what has happened to some parts of my profession, of which I was so proud.” One can only agree.
What is also particularly sickening is that none of this is remotely new. It has been a long time since anybody with any knowledge of National Health Service nurses could be that proud of them. For many years past, a significant number of them have been every bit as bad as this report now claims. I apologise, of course, to all those excellent nurses whose good name has been compromised by the bad and cruel nurses and also by those nurses who, although not bad, are badly trained and incompetent.
Recently I spent a lot of time over three weeks on a busy ward at the Gloucestershire Royal hospital, with several very sick old people, and the nursing care could not possibly have been better — highly professional, attentive and good-humoured and above all extremely kind. It can be done.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
This is probably considered KIND compared to Obama care.
Had a brit tear me up on Facebook b/c of the “lies” going around over here about their health care system. Wonder if she’s reading the stuff in HER OWN newspapers. Are they “lies” too.
Oh, and the punch line—she’s a nurse.
Probably one of those nurses letting the elderly rot in their own feces and urine.
Tell her I said that.
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