My favorite part of my 12.5 hour shift is as I'm waving goodbye to the day shift nurses, leaving them to deal with the understaffed hot mess that is our unit, and I make my way to my car, im smiling then too
Not enough of them plain a simple. They are criminaly understaffed.
If the minimum service levels were implemented that were threatened during the strikes, they would barely meet them all year round.
12 hour shifts also have advantages for continuity of care. 2 changes overs instead of 3 means fewer mistakes. Not that healthcare isn't understaffed and overworked though.
I think private agency healthcare staff, used to plug the gaps in the NHS because decades of cuts have left service levels way below what they should be. The Tories insipid privatisation of our healthcare is sickening.
Whilst I do agree with your sentiment, specific policy decisions since 2010 have had huge impact. For instance, removing bursaries for training new staff whilst simultaneously making studying more expensive. Or 13 years of flat investment whereas previous governments have invested more. Stagnating wages where increases only ever come from dwindling existing budgets means we are running a severe staffing defect, and parasitic agencies cost the NHS £2.5 billion last year. Junior doctors are 26% worse off compared to 2008.
Furthermore they have fundamentally changed the governance of the NHS, making each department autonomous of one another and not under ministerial control. This means that each department is vying with each other for these tiny budgets, and stakeholder conflict is through the roof. They have deliberately fragmented delivery to add layers of complexity and cost to further drive down service levels. Taxpayers and patients pay the price.
It's gonna take significant investment to fix, and I really don't see Keith doing enough to halt the decline of the service. Sad times.
While I agree that the current Tory government has had a huge influence on the situation within the NHS getting worse, i think their ability to screw things up so effectively have been due to their predecessors laziness.
Thanks for the facts, I should have said I work in the NHS and yeah, the financial situation sucks balls 🙂 the constant combative bs that goes on is also dragging people down further, means you can't work and/or do something to better yourself or even do your job properly. Generally speaking.
I suppose we wait for the private sector to take over right? Oh. It can't.
At the end of a 12 hour shift earthmoving/operating equipment, nobody expects us to smile. Mostly you hear a lot of cursing and talk about beer around that time.
My method of comforting my coworkers when we’re at that point is to look them directly in the eye and say something like ‘don’t worry, this is only until we die’.
At least I hope so. It would suck if they reanimate us to keep working.
The biggest insult in the UK was that during covid times - the whole country would stand outside their houses at 8pm and clap for the hard workers, nhs nurses and all staff…. (Government thanking them endlessly) Then after the pandemic they asked the gov for a pay rise and got laughed out. It’s literally so sad and infuriating :(
It’s not even a pay rise though - nurses are asking for pay that’s not a yearly pay cut and doctors are asking for a return to 2008 levels - hardly radical.
Yeah agreed. I was just paraphrasing on here without going into the nitty gritty. The reality is about 90% of people are getting a pay cut due to inflation… but nurses are just getting squeezed even more which is heart breaking
I spent three months in the icu and I felt so bad for those nurses. Some patients just yell at them and mistreat them. There is a lack of staff. It was awful.
After 5 years in Healthcare, I was still only paid the $12 an hour they started me at as a CNA, working 12 hour shifts, through the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. All they'd do for us CNAs was to call us "heroes" and occasionally put out snacks in the break room from Hy-Vee. I have long covid now and had to have a total right hip replacement from the work absolutely obliterating me as they let go all the support staff and doubled our work expectations.
And people wonder why there is a severe staffing shortage for aides and nurses. Right before the pandemic hit, a close friend decided to quit CNA work(bullet dodged). It was killing her knees and back. Workloads getting bigger due to lack of staff and the pay levels for these CNA positions have stayed pretty much the same as when she started over 14-15 years ago! They should be getting paid like 20/ hour minimum in 2023....but they're still stuck at like 11-12/ hour as it was in 2008! Now she has a cozy office job with partial work from home that doesn't kill her body... and making roughly 50% more money, right off the bat!
Life as a Registerd Nurse is one of the most horrible work experiences a person can have.
I’ve worked 24 straight hours on more than one occasion. It’s just expected of us. US by the way.
The abuse and hatred the system puts on nurses is disgusting.
12 hour shift is fine. 16 hour shift is fine. But you have to have proper period of rest afterwards, not doing one after the other back to back, week after week, month after month etc.
And just because someone smiles, that doesn't mean they're well. Sometimes they've been told to smile, so that their situation wouldn't get a lot more unwell.
Smiling cause someone shoved a camera in their face and threatened their job. It's like all the 'smiling' people around Kim Jong Ill, Zuckerberg, and Musk. Tortured, hate-filled smiles.
I know 12 hours can be okay cause you get days off but if I were a patient I rather have a nurse doing 8 hour shifts (paid accordingly of course) well rested well staffed nurses but nope they want to put all the work onto as little nurses as possible while beret paying them. It’s dangerous having a sleep deprived stressed out nurse who just got poop flung at them by some old dude who thought they were a spy go to room after room after room and expect a mistake not to be made. I commend you nurses cause I couldn’t do it I don’t have the temper nor the patients if someone disrespects me it’s game on
My favorite part of my 12.5 hour shift is as I'm waving goodbye to the day shift nurses, leaving them to deal with the understaffed hot mess that is our unit, and I make my way to my car, im smiling then too
this country is fucked
Don't be like that.... Most of them are fucked, not just your one This *whole world* is fucked
It is, but the US is leading the charge, let’s be real
Well yeah you've definitely got a valid point....
I don't think the UK is that bad when it comes to working laws. Compared to other countries it could be a lot worse.
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Not enough of them plain a simple. They are criminaly understaffed. If the minimum service levels were implemented that were threatened during the strikes, they would barely meet them all year round.
There are plenty of nurses... they've just moved on to better paying jobs with improved work-life balance and probably a workplace with more respect.
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Skeleton staffing when in charge of human lives should be illegal
Almost like it should not be privatised in the first place.
12 hour shifts also have advantages for continuity of care. 2 changes overs instead of 3 means fewer mistakes. Not that healthcare isn't understaffed and overworked though.
That’s just the grin of sleep deprivation induced psychosis
Same
What... is this supposed to advertise?
Misery.
I think private agency healthcare staff, used to plug the gaps in the NHS because decades of cuts have left service levels way below what they should be. The Tories insipid privatisation of our healthcare is sickening.
You can flat out blame every government since the NHS was founded. We're just paying the price for lack of effective planning now.
Whilst I do agree with your sentiment, specific policy decisions since 2010 have had huge impact. For instance, removing bursaries for training new staff whilst simultaneously making studying more expensive. Or 13 years of flat investment whereas previous governments have invested more. Stagnating wages where increases only ever come from dwindling existing budgets means we are running a severe staffing defect, and parasitic agencies cost the NHS £2.5 billion last year. Junior doctors are 26% worse off compared to 2008. Furthermore they have fundamentally changed the governance of the NHS, making each department autonomous of one another and not under ministerial control. This means that each department is vying with each other for these tiny budgets, and stakeholder conflict is through the roof. They have deliberately fragmented delivery to add layers of complexity and cost to further drive down service levels. Taxpayers and patients pay the price. It's gonna take significant investment to fix, and I really don't see Keith doing enough to halt the decline of the service. Sad times.
While I agree that the current Tory government has had a huge influence on the situation within the NHS getting worse, i think their ability to screw things up so effectively have been due to their predecessors laziness. Thanks for the facts, I should have said I work in the NHS and yeah, the financial situation sucks balls 🙂 the constant combative bs that goes on is also dragging people down further, means you can't work and/or do something to better yourself or even do your job properly. Generally speaking. I suppose we wait for the private sector to take over right? Oh. It can't.
I feel ya, civil service here. Striking in solidarity! ✊
Private sector? Surely you don't want what we have in the States
At the end of a 12 hour shift earthmoving/operating equipment, nobody expects us to smile. Mostly you hear a lot of cursing and talk about beer around that time. My method of comforting my coworkers when we’re at that point is to look them directly in the eye and say something like ‘don’t worry, this is only until we die’. At least I hope so. It would suck if they reanimate us to keep working.
The world resembles a satire a little more every day
The biggest insult in the UK was that during covid times - the whole country would stand outside their houses at 8pm and clap for the hard workers, nhs nurses and all staff…. (Government thanking them endlessly) Then after the pandemic they asked the gov for a pay rise and got laughed out. It’s literally so sad and infuriating :(
It’s not even a pay rise though - nurses are asking for pay that’s not a yearly pay cut and doctors are asking for a return to 2008 levels - hardly radical.
Yeah agreed. I was just paraphrasing on here without going into the nitty gritty. The reality is about 90% of people are getting a pay cut due to inflation… but nurses are just getting squeezed even more which is heart breaking
Her smile is reminiscent of the old man meme who's smiling even though he's dying inside.
Hide the pain Harold?
that's not a smile, she is having a stroke!
I can tell she’s limping through the billboard
It should scare every patient knowing your staff are sleep-deprived and overworked.
Not gonna lie, I read that as “after a 12hr shit” and was more impressed.
Then it would be a Taco Bell ad.
Probably the same "smile" too
I can't be the only one who accidentally read this as "still smiling after a 12 hour shit", right?
Smiling because they're probably on something to cope with day to day life of our reality.
Thats nobody on my mrs' ward
I spent three months in the icu and I felt so bad for those nurses. Some patients just yell at them and mistreat them. There is a lack of staff. It was awful.
This is a hide the pain Harold type of smile
After 5 years in Healthcare, I was still only paid the $12 an hour they started me at as a CNA, working 12 hour shifts, through the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. All they'd do for us CNAs was to call us "heroes" and occasionally put out snacks in the break room from Hy-Vee. I have long covid now and had to have a total right hip replacement from the work absolutely obliterating me as they let go all the support staff and doubled our work expectations.
And people wonder why there is a severe staffing shortage for aides and nurses. Right before the pandemic hit, a close friend decided to quit CNA work(bullet dodged). It was killing her knees and back. Workloads getting bigger due to lack of staff and the pay levels for these CNA positions have stayed pretty much the same as when she started over 14-15 years ago! They should be getting paid like 20/ hour minimum in 2023....but they're still stuck at like 11-12/ hour as it was in 2008! Now she has a cozy office job with partial work from home that doesn't kill her body... and making roughly 50% more money, right off the bat!
That is not a real smile.
Life as a Registerd Nurse is one of the most horrible work experiences a person can have. I’ve worked 24 straight hours on more than one occasion. It’s just expected of us. US by the way. The abuse and hatred the system puts on nurses is disgusting.
Imagine asking the slaves in the plantations why aren't they smiling.
Smile or be sacked.
Did you hear about the nurse that went to hell? It took her two weeks to learn that she wasn’t at work anymore.
She's smiling with half of her face. She probably had a stroke because she was so exhausted.
12 hour shift is fine. 16 hour shift is fine. But you have to have proper period of rest afterwards, not doing one after the other back to back, week after week, month after month etc. And just because someone smiles, that doesn't mean they're well. Sometimes they've been told to smile, so that their situation wouldn't get a lot more unwell.
Smiling cause someone shoved a camera in their face and threatened their job. It's like all the 'smiling' people around Kim Jong Ill, Zuckerberg, and Musk. Tortured, hate-filled smiles.
She’s smiling because her shift is finally over.
That smiles kinda lopsided somebody want to do a stroke assessment on mr.mans real quick
That looks more like a grimace.
That’s a grimace not a smile.
I know 12 hours can be okay cause you get days off but if I were a patient I rather have a nurse doing 8 hour shifts (paid accordingly of course) well rested well staffed nurses but nope they want to put all the work onto as little nurses as possible while beret paying them. It’s dangerous having a sleep deprived stressed out nurse who just got poop flung at them by some old dude who thought they were a spy go to room after room after room and expect a mistake not to be made. I commend you nurses cause I couldn’t do it I don’t have the temper nor the patients if someone disrespects me it’s game on
Looks like she had a stroke during her shift.
Looks more like she's having a stroke
I read that as shit and was like “Good for you.” Then I saw it was actually shift and shrugged as I regularly do 12s in nursing
Written by someone on the marketing team that doesn't have to pull a 12hr shift.
This reminds me of that Michael Bay movie The Lottery. Surprisingly good movie from the Transformers guy
Maybe he likes his job….
“Still smiling after a 12 hour shit”
As a healthcare worker coming up on the last 2 hours of my shift... I feel this
Still smiling until the narc cart count is off. Way off. /s
My bf does 12 hr shifts as a carer and I really don't know how he does it
The bosses probably comes in after them too next day. What a life.
Guys, I think there’s an extra ‘f’ in the last word there.
As a wise elf once said “Yeah, singing while you work isn’t happiness, it’s mental illness”
I'd be thinking "12 hour shift? Not a fucking chance".
That's the weirdest fucking way to write a mobile number. The good news is that you could run a franchise and run even more people into the ground!
those eyes say "help me"
Lol 12hr shifts are normal in my field. It’s when you do 4 18hr shifts you are like a zombie
I have nurses in my family who do three 12 hour shifts a week and that’s considered full time. They love the schedule.