Elections 2015 - Politics and #StTwitters

Matron takes a dim view of the 2015 Elections and Squabbling Politicians

Will St Twitters Survive

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The NHS & StTwitters

THE WELFARE OF OUR PATIENTS IS AT STAKE

So - there was a boat race between a Japanese crew and NHS. Both sides practice long and hard. The Japanese won by a mile. So the NHS faced with this problem set up a working party. The working party report that the Japanese crew had 8 people rowing and 1 steering, and the NHS crew had 8 people steering and 1 rowing. So they brought in management consultants who confirmed the diagnosis. They suggested that the NHS crew should be completely restructured with 3 Assistant Steering Managers, 3 Deputy Steering Managers, a Director of Steering Services, and a rower incentivised to row. They had another race. They lost by 2 miles. They laid off the rower for poor performance. They sold off the boat. 

(Tony Benn 1988)

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means. - Aneurin Bevan 1952

You can always ‘pass by on the other side (refuse care if unable to pay). That may be sound economics. It could not be worse morals. A Bevan

The essence of a NHS is that the rich & the poor are treated alike, that poverty is not a disability, & wealth is not advantaged. Nye Bevan

If the job is to be done [A National Health Service], the state must accept financial responsibility. Aneurin Bevan 1952

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Academic Nurses and Project 1860

Matron Ponders the Arrival of Academics and other such outrageous new ideas at #StTwitters

(With what can only described as a jaundiced eye)

"I consider the introduction of so called "Academic" Nursing as probably the worse idea that has ever happened - and I put the blame for this firmly at the feet of the upstarts at the RCN and NMC. I insist that Academia has no part to play in our noble profession.  

THE ACADEMIC NURSE HIERARCHY 

C/O @PhillipRABall - The Head Porter #StTwitters

"Have you ever heard such nonsense - A Professor of Nursing! - girls, back to the sluice now and let us retake our proper place and identity in the noble provision of feminine led care"

Matron and the Efficiency Office will be implementing "Project 1860" to ensure we return to the cherished values of "Basic & Fundamental" Nursing Care from the Victorian Golden Age.

"Nurse training should be an ideal rounding off to a young woman's education, providing a smooth transition from childhood to motherhood."

Old P & Old P think Matron lost the Plot

"The Schools of Nursing are equally culpable. It should come as no surprise that Educationalists are in favour of the NMC so called Standards. My own School of Nursing boasts more Communists than the BBC."

"I am encouraged, however, by reports from some of my students, that many of our Nurse Tutors are standing up for tradition, and continue to base all their teaching on anecdotal instruction."

"After all, the socialists say you cant expect the new style nurse to stand for Parliament,  strike, or become a sociology professor, if she is surrounded by sick people."

Project 1860 

A RETURN TO TRADITIONAL VALUES AT 

#STTWITTERS

And Never Forget the #ConDem NHS Motto

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Matron airs her view on Nursing Research at #Sttwitters

Matron airs her view on Nursing Research at #Sttwitters 

@StTweetersTrust 

Speaking as an essentially practical nurse, I find the endless discussions about nursing research impossible to bear in silence. Now research is a very good thing in its place, there can be few alive today who have not benefited from the vision and determination of the great men of medical science; where would we be without Listers`antiseptics, Simpsons anaesthesia, or Andrews Liver Salts.

But research is emphatically and undeniably the rightful domain of the doctor, as the sluice is the appropriate area for the student nurse. Those who argue for nursing research are the same quasi-intellectuals who seek to turn this great profession of ours into a mere technical specialism. You will hear them claiming to be establishing an independent body of knowledge unique to nursing;  this is arrant enough poppycock on its own, but conceals a far more sinister purpose. Their real aim is to make the simple Art of Nursing incomprehensible to its own most experienced practitioners; these revolutionaries are confident that under the confusion spread by their talk of 'models', 'variables', 'methods', 'frameworks' and so called 'evidence', they will be able to wrest control of the Profession away from its rightful inheritors.

Such is the insidious growth in the research faction that we can no longer open the Nursing Times or Nursing Standard without coming across some impenetrable treatise devoted to abstract and totally irrelevant topics, peppered with American jargon and complex diagrams. Fortunately most nurses are far to sensible to waste their time wading through this rubbish. They instinctively mistrust research because it so often seeks to undercut and discredit methods which have been accepted for over a century.

Thus I exhort my #StTwitters Nurses to reject this new fangled, academic and male driven demand for so called Evidence Based Practice. NO - we must trust in tradition, in tried and tested rituals, in instinct - this the very foundations of what we do as professional nurse. Brush aside these political 'guidance frameworks', competencies, rules and risk assessments. I call upon the upstarts at the NMC to take a stance on this. My girls have no need to Intentionally Round - they Unintentionally Round because that is at the core of their instinctive professionalism as nurses.

These principles I exhort all nurses to adopt. The Welfare of our Patients is at Stake.

INTERNATIONAL NURSES DAY

INTERNATIONAL NURSES DAY

2014 - Well that was hectic 

Impressions a Staggering 1 Million

482 Tweets

82 Participants 

SEE THE CHAT DATA

You Dusted off your Memories

SO MUCH TO REMEMBER

PATIENTS, STAFF, RULES, UNIFORMS

 THINGS WE DID, THINGS WE DIDN'T DO

TEARS, LAUGHTER, INSPIRATIONS

NURSING - DEFINES US

"You Did Remember"

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MOVE OVER @Wenurses
#StTwitters is Taking Charge

MONDAY MAY 12TH 2014

9pm - 10pm

Guaranteed Anarchy 

TWITTER CHAT

REMEMBER #REMEMBER 

A TRIP DOWN A NURSING MEMORY LANE

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DO YOU REMEMBER

Magnesium Sulphate

Kaolin poultice to draw "it" out

Egg white & Oxygen anyone?

Opium tincture.

And let's not forget EUSOL?!

Edinburgh University Solution Of Lime

MILTONs ! ... for sterilising?

Savilon

Wounds - Hydrogen peroxide!!!

Gentian stained fingers?

Soaked gauze ribbon in it to pack wounds.

Salt baths pre and post Op?

And full shave - for just about anything!

Nipples to knees / ankles

Nelsons inhaler with boiling water & friars balsam

Paraffin tulle impregnated with honey?

Elastoplast & Sleek on skin

A life before gloves

Chlorhexidine  in Magenta 

Dressing procedures with forceps prowess

The 'Back' Trolley

Many Tailed Bandages

Take the Basket to the Linen - Not the Linen to the Basket

Drapolene

The Visiting Hours BELL

Gets buckle out, gives it a polish

Steam sterilisers ?

Cidex

Patients #OT - bandage rolling in the afternoon

Shiny bedpans

Pillow Case opening away from the Ward Entrance

Cooked Breakfasts for Patients

Folding back the top sheet = The fold back - length from elbow to finger tips

45 Degree Bed Corners

Post Op Beds

Windows we could open wide to the germs out

Full Canteen Service at Night for Night Staff

The Horlicks Gadget 

Prescribed Sherry, Whisky and Guinness on the Drug Trolley

Old beds tall head/foot boards & rails under bed

Bed Wheels all lined up in the same direction

Beds like a huge cot!

Silastic Foam

Sleak

Test Tubes and Bunsen Burners for Urinalysis

Milking Chest Drains

WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER 

ABOUT NURSING

LETS TALK ON ABOUT IT

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THE WELFARE OF OUR PATIENTS IS AT STAKE

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