Thursday, 1 July 2010  Out of the mouths of babes  I feel really
bad for the decent cadets and health care assistants for
writing this.  But the fact it is that many of them are not so
good and should not be employed instead of Nurses.  They fact is
that they will continue to be employed instead of Nurses. 
Neither job seeking RN's who trained in the 70's nor new
graduate RN's can find jobs on the wards.   Here is the latest
one from  the ward next to mine:  Patient became unwell in the
night with..... let's say sepsis, very weak and has gone from
able to attend to her own hygiene needs to being totally
helpless.  This has happened very quickly.  Enter the auxillary,
who has sat with the Nurse and "listened" to handover and all
the information on these patients at the beginning of the shift.
She  goes into the room.  I put the word "listened" in quotes
because many auxilliaries, cadets and the like sleep through
handover.  They just just get on with baths and forget
everything else.  "You could wipe your bum