Omega Owners Forum
Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Turk on 26 October 2010, 00:03:18
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-11612402
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There are mistakes, and there are real mistakes with life or death consequences :'( :'(
It seems in this case as though the agency nurse had not received any training to deal with such an incident, but she decided to touch the machine.............!!!!! ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
A terrible outcome for the patient concerned :'( :'( :'(
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She ain't no nurse, some bod dragged in off the street >:( ...and entirely as the patient suspected, poor bugger.
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A needless tragedy but I wonder why it's necessary to depend so much on agency provided staff?
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Presume purely cost saving Z....?
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The poor patient suspected his care was going to be substandard and installed CCTV.
What do we expect to happen?
I wondered how many times a similar thing had happened but not caught on CCTV. 100 times a year? Not good.
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Presume purely cost saving Z....?
Yes, I think that's the theory behind it Chris but like the LEAN manufacturing post you commented on over on Richard's thread, there is quite a difference between theory and practice. I wouldn't be at all surprised that employing agency staff actually cost more in the long run.
In this case it led to an unecessary tragedy - the agency staff member who allocated the job to this untrained 'nurse' (given the type of equipment involved) should have their arses kicked out into the gutter.
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This is frightening! The ultimate responsibility must lie
with that woman's bosses, but you wonder whether proper action will be taken.
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A needless tragedy but I wonder why it's necessary to depend so much on agency provided staff?
I think if you are staff then you are limited in the number of hours you can work in a day. If you are on two agencies however....