We are honored and grateful that NHS staff and people working in the social care sector have approached The UK Column to tell their stories and share their experiences.
In this interview, Debi Evans works in NHS Grampian (North East Scotland) and has the chance to speak to fellow 'old school' nurses who, like Debi, remember the days when nurses held patients' hands and treated them. welcomed. Treat them with respect and dignity.
Old-style NHS nurses provided a wealth of 'tender, loving care'. They were trained to be vigilant observers, touching patients in appropriate ways and sensing the rate, rhythm, and volume of their pulses. Check your temperature instead of sticking a device in your ear. This is to observe their color, general condition, and how they feel when you touch their skin. They looked at the rise and fall of the chest, counted breaths, and listened with a stethoscope while measuring blood pressure with an old-fashioned sphygmomanometer. Do newly qualified nurses know how to do that now and spend one-on-one time with patients?
Since the beginning of the “pandemic,” ethics, procedures, common sense, kindness, and safe practices seem to have disappeared as quickly as the coronavirus appeared. As an example, drug rounds were always conducted by two hospital staff members, one of whom had to be a trained nurse. Medications loaded on trolleys and in ward-controlled medicine cabinets were carefully counted, recorded, checked, and retested before approaching patients. The trolley is never Left alone. But that was then. This is now.
Francis Adamson BSc RGNOur nurses from the Aberdeen area have extensive nursing experience. Since qualifying, she has taken numerous post-registration courses and trainings at the master's degree level. After working as a specialist scrub nurse in the surgical department, she continued her training and education. Creating a new service is not an easy mission. But Fran did it very successfully and helped build an important service for heart patients. Find out how the NHS paid her and how her trade union, Unison, supported her in this interview.
Fran, who is also a nurse educator, eventually moved from hospital work to primary care as a controlled substance monitor, a role that required her to work with prisons, GPs and community pharmacists. She has since worked as an advanced non-medical prescriber for NHS Grampian. Vaccines and drug protocols are her area of expertise.
Sadly for everyone in Scotland who needs dedicated nurses like her, Fran has handed in her resignation and is now filing her resignation. Once proud of her mission, she is suddenly wracked with guilt and finds that her very position within the NHS has been seriously and irrevocably compromised. Major medical injunctions do no harm This was no longer the case with this brave new NHS that she had driven herself to start. Instead of protecting patients, they put them at risk and sometimes even lost their lives.
in this UK column exclusive interviewFran gave up her anonymity to tell the public what is happening in Scotland's NHS and how hospital corridors have become permanent unofficial wards staffed by paramedics. Find out why private medicine is different than you think. Prepare to be shocked. Do parents know about the childhood immunization schedule? All parents should watch this interview to find out. Do you know what your baby or child is being beaten with? How can one injection be given six times?
Fran revealed that over two years she had been at the receiving end of rudeness, ridicule and unkind comments after challenging the government and NHS and questioning the rationale of senior colleagues and managers. Ta. As time went on, Fran found herself increasingly lonely, angry and isolated within the NHS, which bore no resemblance to the NHS in which she had been trained.
She also said people did not know who they were seeing on the NHS, meaning not everyone treating patients had the appropriate qualifications. Experienced staff members quit. Would experienced nurses themselves be willing to step into the arms of the NHS that trained them?
Due to Fran's moral compass, she is no longer allowed to work for the NHS. She explains how her mental and physical health has been affected, keeping her up at night throughout the 'pandemic'. Luckily for her, she has a supportive family who encourages her to follow her instincts.
Once you're a nurse, you'll always be a nurse. Fran Adamson has spoken of how she mourns her job, her colleagues who are still trapped in the NHS, and has spoken out about her concern for the patients who depend on the NHS she once was so proud of. . As Fran makes an emotional and heartfelt appeal to her watching colleagues, we are grateful that she is the only voice that represents so many. We hope that through her bravery, more people will speak out the truth in public. UK Column will treat them appropriately and confidentially.
We thank Frances Adamson for standing firm and sacrificing her livelihood and mission. The NHS would be a darker place without her, but she will sleep better at night knowing that she stood up when so few others did.
