Hospital Staff, Over Payed And Underworked ?
With all the debates and furore that is happening in the news recently about NHS job cuts I thought i'd offer my (some may say ignorant) opinion.
About six months ago a broke one of my toes quite badly and had to attend the hospital on a weekly basis to have dressings changed - a block of concrete crushed it. I became increasingly annoyed with the amount of staff that appeared to dawdle about the hospital, stopping for chats with other members of staff and generally appearing to be mooching the day away. Now if they were on breaks, fine, but I cant see that amount of staff being on breaks at the same time. It even got to the point where I would return home to remove my dressing and re-apply it myself because the hospital staff's efforts was totally lame.
I agree that a lot of NHS staff are invaluable, but some are dead-wood. Does anyone share my opinions ?
Tags: Hospital..., Over, Payed, Staff, Underworked
September 12th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
I am in the health care field myself and yes at times certain people do seem to just be “taking up space” This burns me really bad because it gives the ones of us who do run our tails off a bad rep as well. I keep saying if where I work the managment would get rid of the ones that take up space and keep the ones that hussle then they would have an outstanding health care facility.
September 13th, 2009 at 3:21 am
I don’t share your opinion, because your views are wrong.
If you had spent any time in hospitals, you would realise that the main delay is due to things like waiting for the test results, or the drugs to come through.
And broken toes arn’t anything to worry about. The NHS is unfunded, and it’s an extremely hard job. They’re in the frontline. For instance, you’re sure when you go to work (If you do work) that you’re not going to be assaulted. Nurses don’t have the same safety, and for that reason they should be paid a lot more than they are.
September 13th, 2009 at 6:35 am
Well wouldn’t you get fed up with careless people who drop concrete blocks on their toe’s
September 13th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
its the same wherever you work these day. always someone waiting in the wings getting paid for doing nothing and then complain that other people are lazy, they just dont see themselves
September 13th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Not at all…. At quiet times, staff may not appear so busy, but when the hospital starts getting busy, they [the staff] don’t get a chance to sit down or have a proper break..
[just out of hospital]
September 13th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
i absolutley disagree with you
September 13th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
They Are Underpayed For The Serives They Do.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:44 am
I agree. I have worked in a general hospital and a lot of them are dim, lazy and downright useless. In the managerial side there is a great deal of nepotism, employing the sons and daughters of doctors and consultants, who are all about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike. The nurses are dim unfriendly sluts, the doctors are bastards and anyone who wants to make a difference and do some good is marginalised and trivialised by the class heirachy that exists in hospitals. We do live in a nice country don’t we?
September 14th, 2009 at 7:01 am
No. I must disagree. I had surgery for a trapped nerve and though the staff were obviously overworked, they were all lovely and completely helpful and understanding. At one point my husband wandered off to find a nurse, who quickly came to help me despite the ratio of patients of staff. Also my best mate is a nurse, so don’t go there, lol.
Seriously though, you will find good and bad everywhere. Where I live we have the world’s worst Macdonalds. Even my 8 yr old daughter says they have slow food not fast food, that’s when they have what you want. They usually run out of either ice-cream, milkshake or toys for happy meals – how basic is that. Drive about 20 mins away, in any direction, and they CAN serve fast food.
And no, I don’t think you should go to macdonalds for quick treatment…..lol. There will always be some dead wood wherever you go – but maybe you were unlucky? Hope your foot is better, sounds REALLY painful!
September 14th, 2009 at 7:12 am
You obviously couldn`t mobilise properly to see just how hard NHS staff work.As for your foot you`d probably are better off doing your own dressings at home due to hospital infections.
September 14th, 2009 at 11:08 am
you big woos imagine going to hospital with a sore toe ya big shitebag
September 14th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
I totally disagree with you!!! I work at a hospital and it is very hard work. I think that we are under paid and overworked. Do you work in the healthcare field? I agree that there are a few people that don’t care about anything but getting paid but there are tons more that absolutely are just amazing and desire more money.
September 14th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
I agree with your opinion and know what? If someone else doesn’t that’s ok too.
September 14th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Unfortunately i have to agree with you.
September 15th, 2009 at 4:49 am
i am in nursing, and yes i do know what you mean, but i can assure you, there is not much dawdling about when there is work to be done, for instance, on the wards it is hard work, could you wash someone elses bottom, clean bodies and get them ready for the morgue, comfort someone when they have just been told they have weeks, maybe days to live, then come home and try to live a normal life without it affecting you in some way. there are many departments in a hospital, that are not like that, outpatients, day clinics, etc, these places can be busy too, but from my own experience there is more walking around to other departments when in those settings. staff nurses mostly do a lot of paper work now, you will find it is the support nurses or care assistants that do most of the manual work..it is a hard job, sometimes really hard, could you do it, and also, as in all professions, there are lazy people who give us all a bad name.also i know i am not alone when i say that nursing students who come to our ward from college, know all their theory inside out, but the practical work is not up to scratch, but that is a government problem that needs addressed.
September 15th, 2009 at 5:38 am
I was rushed into hospital a few weeks ago and had major surgery and i cannot fault any member of staff in the A&E department, the theatres or the ward – whether they were nurses, doctors, porters, domestic staff or admin staff.
If they worked in an office and you saw them speaking to each other would you say that they were deadwood too – just because it is a hospital it does not mean to say that the staff cannot speak to each other and half the time they were probably discussing work and if they werent then so what, they are allowed to get away from a stressful job for a couple of minutes now and again. Yes they get breaks but for people to think or say they shouldnt stop and chat for a couple of minutes to friends or colleagues during the day is complete nonsense.
As for you re-doing the dressings why did you keep going back to get the dressing done if they were that bad????
Ungrateful and ignorant (your words not mine) people like you really annoy me – nurses and doctors are human too and need to speak to someone who isnt unwell. What about policemen chatting to others while they are on patrol?? do you think they shouldnt be doing that while at work???
If people understood the pressures nurses, doctors and other members of staff are under on a daily basis then maybe you wouldnt be so quick to criticise them.
As far as pay for them is concerned – they dont get paid near enough for what they do, and dont forget the abuse they face on a daily basis from members of the public. I say the government should give them a decent payrise and stop lining their own pockets.
Sorry I should have said that I used to be in nursing (not qualified) before i had my daughter and nearly every member of my family are either nurses or doctors or radiographers so, as one other member said, dont even go there
September 15th, 2009 at 9:31 am
I tend to agree up to a point the fact is that there is a shortage of nursing staff within the NHS and it would appear that the vast majority of staff on wards are made up of administrators, clerks, cleaners, assistants etc. The days of the matron have long since passed us by only to be replaced by an increase in administrative personnel, lots of people doing the jobs covered by nurses in the past. The NHS must waste a fortune on these posts resulting in over pressured and under paid nurses. If the power was given back to the staff nurses(Matrons) then I believe things would improve.