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...causes 'outrage'.

Came across this today (from last November [edit: sorry, a year last August]).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... e-her.html

Don't you just love Daily Mail readers ("If all the staff were outside who was looking after the patients?" etc).

I wonder if there's anywhere you can show your support for the nurses.

I have to say I disagree there Bill, unlike any other job, nursing is a public servant, and while it might be seen as a little fun to most people, it is not the sort of thing that goes down well in the nursing circles. The point about who was watching patients is actually very pertinent in my perspective. The hospitals are hardly the most sanitary places in the world as they are, this sort of thing, done with no prior warning sends off the wrong signals. Had there been a little foreplanning and it mentioned donation to the hospital fund or something as part of it, I doubt people would have minded, as it is, the incident is done against departmental rules, and, whether it is harmless fun or not, that is the overriding concern for patients and staff

I posted it mainly because it contained messy pictures of the nurse (how often does there happen to be someone with a decent camera around when this goes on?) and as it happens, she looks to be quite easy on the eye.

For a truly balanced view (Heh!, Heh!) the Mirror also ran this story.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nu ... ops-149429

Moral issues aside, I was amused by the journalism, which, while taking a moral high ground in both cases, reads as little more than gratuitous tittle tattle (and they’re virtually identical, despite being by two different writers). Bearing in mind the tone, they both use the term, ‘brunette’ to identify the ‘victim’ (quite pejorative and titillating in itself).

The nurses might well have been misguided and misjudged the situation, but their point of view is not given. In fact, few details are revealed in either story other than those which lead us to conclude that their behaviour was truly wrong. It’s also presumed that the nurse tied up was complicit. For all we know patient care may really not have been affected. The whole thing perhaps taking place in less than 5 minutes.

If only the Guardian, or Channel 4 News could have covered it

It states quite clearly that even the snooty Trust official said that at no time was patient care affected. It isn't on a ward so hygiene is not an issue. Okay it could have been planned and official procedures followed but it was a fucking joke for god's sake which almost certainly happened when the staff were off-shift, and probably amused the vast majority.

I don't suppose official procedures were followed when five nurses and a doctor stayed long after their shift to present my Mum with a specially-made birthday cake ("A health risk?" - Daily Mail, "A waste of hospital funds?" Daily Mirror) and sing Happy Birthday to her when she had her 87th in the cancer ward at East Grinstead. Oh, and before somebody writes to either paper complaining about positive discrimination in favour of the elderly, my Mum shared it with everyone on the ward regardless of age, colour or religion.

Like hospital food, tabloid outcries should be taken with more than a pinch of salt.

Looking at it, the only thing that I would say was probably mis-judged was making the "mess" look like it might have been bodily. I can see that might make some visitors uncomfortable and isn't what you'd like to see when you turn up at a hospital to visit a sick relative.

I did enjoy not even needing to read the article to know how they would be written though. Tabloid journalism at it's finest.

jon42 wrote:Looking at it, the only thing that I would say was probably mis-judged was making the "mess" look like it might have been bodily. I can see that might make some visitors uncomfortable and isn't what you'd like to see when you turn up at a hospital to visit a sick relative.

I agree from the public perspective but I know several nurses and by virtue of their job they have a far more jokey attitude to bodily products (not to mention the body itself) than most people, so I can see why it happened.

Used to be standard practice on wards for students/staff that were moving on to be gunged. These folks made the mistake of doing it where it wouldn't make a mess on the floor.

During my career in pharmacy I came into professional and social contact with many nurses and always found them to be beyond reproach in their duties and kind attitude towards their patients.

Off duty however they were an unbelievable bunch of loonies, ever indulging in parties and all sorts of harmless mischief!

For a job which involves so much sadness in times of suffering and death of patients whom they had cared for during long hours, some relief is necessary and can often involve practical jokes on each other!

We live in PC world. Believe it or not, I was shopping in tesco's today. A member of staff came over and applogised for the lady yawning on the till, that was serving me.

This didn't bother me in the slightest, yet when I asked cashier why her supervisor had passed comment to me about her, she replied, 'In case you complaint in!!'

says it all really.....

regards

Andy and the team.

andy250 wrote:We live in PC world. Believe it or not, I was shopping in tesco's today. A member of staff came over and applogised for the lady yawning on the till, that was serving me.

I don't blame her, Andy, if she's just checked through about a thousand cartons of custard (etc.) from your trolley!

When i was a young student agricultural engineering.One of the tuters told us about a girl who was the only mechanic at a dealers .When she left to come back to study at College,The gave her a messy make over,She was by all accounts rather busty .All five of them massaged thick grease all over her assets!!She would always walk round college smiling.This was about 92.Splosh magazine were advertised in the back of The Express as well !!