so excited!

Flicka9736 · Veteran Member

so excited!

Flicka9736 · Veteran Member

Note to all. Do NOT, under any circumstances get sick in Rockhampton. Icu was awesome, apart from one or two nurses, as for the rest....seriously, it was like something you'd see on A current affair, they were beyond incompetent, there was zero communication between staff, even during hand over! Not to mention, they treated my Dad like a demented old fool and talked to him (or at him) like a 3yo. Disgusting. Rehab is only marginally better, I can't wait to get him out of there!

Gerty Dancer · Guru

I'm so glad you are able to get him out of there Flicka, hospitals used to be a place where you expected to be treated kindly.

Flicka9736 · Veteran Member

Yes Gerry, that's so true. We are also extremely aware of the hard work our nurses do and how under staffed they are. Especially considering that we have many nurses in our family, so we tried to stay out of their way and put as little pressure on them as possible. But they were just so rude, obnoxious and incompetent. I've honestly never experienced aanything like it. My sister Is an icu nurse In Melbourne,.she was devastated at some of the things she saw and heard. Some people shouldn't be nurses.

Colls · Senior Member

Do you think that nursing training is as good as the old days? I cant imagine what it must be like to come out of Uni, degree in hand and then learn about people. Whatever the reason, I don't think there's any need for rudeness in health care of any sort.

neilnruth · Guru

I think the in-hospital training was better.

QueenKombi · Senior Member

Colls wrote:
Do you think that nursing training is as good as the old days? I cant imagine what it must be like to come out of Uni, degree in hand and then learn about people. Whatever the reason, I don't think there's any need for rudeness in health care of any sort.

Whilst in Uni, trainee nurses do lots of placements to become "hands-on" so they should have a good understanding of what the job requires.

In the "old days" trainee nurses were often given menial tasks such as emptying bed pans or making beds, so it probably took just as long to find that "human connection." They also spent a lot of time in the class room, except they were paid to do the training. To some it was just a job, whereas uni trained nurses are usually quite passionate about their chosen career.

I really do think people have the wrong idea of what uni trained nursing is all about and I say that in the nicest possible way. We all hear stories about how a nurse can't get the necessary training sitting behind a desk all day in a class room, but from what I've heard, the balance between the new and old ways of doing things is about the same.

I work with some fantastic hospital trained nurses and I really look up to them, but by the same token I've worked with hospital trained nurses who are obviously burned out and only remain in the job to stack even more gold rings on their fingers. The same is true with uni trained nurse too. Some I look up to, others I wouldn't give the time of day!

pambaz · Senior Member

I do hope your Dad is recovering well and gets back to his fishing soon.

I recently spent 2 days in a big Sydney hospital ,having to have emergency surgery. From the time we arrived in Emergency to the time I was attended to by a Dr was less than an hour, immediately put on a drip and after many tests I was admitted into a MUA ward to wait for surgery. That didnt happen until 9.30pm after being at the hospital for 12hrs but it was done and I have recovered well.

The nurses and Drs were extremely good and the nurses in my ward excellent except for one who was quite put out when I accidentally rang my buzzer about 2am,it had slipped under me while I was still groggy from the anaethestic.

The only thing that got my "goat" was the way most of the nurses spoke to the elderly patients in my Ward. Very patronising ,what is wrong with just talking normally to these seniors .

In all I was very happy with my treatment.

I really feel for the staff in emergency as they are stretched to the limit and also the ward staff they can have some really difficult patients.

One thing in the Public system that I find offensive is putting men and women in the same ward. Just not right.

Pam

milo · Guru

while I can sympathies about some of the complaints may have been had, my mum no longer with us
was a nurse and I know there are some really great ones out there, hopefully more than the bad ones
glad your dad is home,there is nothing like home

Ontos45 · Guru

One thing in the Public system that I find offensive is putting men and women in the same ward. Just not right.

Pam
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I am in a mixed ward now awaiting an operation in RBWH Being male and 68, not the way I was brought up. Cannot help seeing things as some nurses not too particular closing curtins.

Peter

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Wow... Royal Brisbane WOMENS hospital, Ontos???

How long have they had male patients there?