What a wasted day

Thanks for all the good wishes guys, I will get to have the operation eventually but I just wanted to get back on with life off the pills that cause me more greif than they do good and to stop having these attacks which sap me of energy.

To NM and Diana, I really take my hat off to you gals and all the hospital workers from the fantastic nursing staff to the Dr's and admin and everyone else that it takes to run a hospital, I dont know how you put up with it.

I have been in and out of Hossy for the last 14 months about 8 or 9 times, I have been in for tests and check ups every month and blood tests every week and normally I have had it pretty good but the same thing keeps popping up, not enough staff and not enough beds for the amount of patients coming through the door.

It's fine to say that you have an average of this amount of patients in a day, week, month or year but you cant use those sort of stats in a system which is there mainly because of the unexpected or at least the emergency system is.

I dont mean to be complaining or making out that Im unhappy with the service that Ive got from the staff from the hospitals that I have had to go to as the staff on the large have been great, the system just needs to be a system that can handle the work load and not a bank balance.

Thanks Ken, I'll take your suggestion on board and hang some crap on Chris, that will make me feel better LOL.....

Thanks again folks

I sympathise as I waited 6 months for cancer removal just to have it cancelled twice.
By the time I got around to the op the cancer had spread to the point that they had too take half my left hand side of my face.:o
Not too worry was not handsom to start with;) but saved my life in the long run:D, to compound the issue had massive heart attack sometime later:( and had bypass surgery booked turned up anethatised and cancelled twice.:(

O well still here:D:cool::D and still love doctors and nurses:D:D:D just not the govt dept responsable or should I say irresposable for health.:o

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Originally Posted by mcrover

Thanks for all the good wishes guys, ... ... the system just needs to be a system that can handle the work load and not a bank balance. ...

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CAN NOT AGREE WITH YOU MORE!

However it seems that the word has got out there to the "Me Generations" Generations X and Y the who don't want to know about careers that involved shift work or committment or whatever.

The following will make you sick:

• Nurses comprise 50% of the health workforce.
• Nearly half of the current nursing workforce are 45 years or older and planning to retire in the next 20 years.
• To replace the nurses that are about to retire in the next 20 years we need to qualify about 10,000 Registered Nurses per year (from all sources including training and immigration.)
• Last time I saw any statistics NSW was 4,500 nurses short.
• Currently we are only qualifying about 5,000 Registered Nurses per year.
• That does not replace the nurses we are loosing through retirement, does not replace the shortages we already have, it does not allow for an expanding population and it does not address our ageing "Baby Boomer" population who are now needing increasing healthcare.

Don't be fooled by any political rhetoric - we are already training Enrolled Nurses in TAFE's with all their clinical experience in hospitals. There is notheing new it this plan by one of the parties.

We have already tried local community boards to control hospitals and at least in Sydney we have had to sack them on numerous occassions and bring in administrators.

What the answer is I could go on with all night - but if we want things to improve it will not be by making the emergency department staff more stressed.

Remember nurses are now university trained and they can vote with their feet by moving to another country or profession very easily.

Whom ever wins the next election has to sort this mess out, but don't hold your breath. There may not be any nurses there with oxygen to revive you.

Diana,

That's the hospital system.
Brother chopped 1 finger off and mangled 2 others with an angle grinder 2 years ago. 24 hours waiting in Casualty to be seen with no pain relief. His girlfriend ended up catching the train home to gt food and pain relief to bring back to him.
Lets hope the funding improves.

My girlfriend works at a certain hospital that has been copping heaps lately,she told me a patient tried to spit on a ED nurse and another nurse was spat on while catching a train home, everybody is taking it out on the nurses when it is the administration and polititions who really are at fault same old story to many cheifs and not enough indians!I know it is a shame but a lot of the time miscarrages are natures way of stopping a potential problem my exwife suffered a miscarrage and to this day WE still think it was for the best.I now have three healthy kids. Also it it is not just limited to rns it is every hospital they are just making a big deal because it was rns if it was some of the other hospital you wouldn't hear a thing about it .eg blacktown hosp lost a full term still born and then creamated it so the parents never even had a baby to bury. Westmead has whole fully equiped wards but they are closed because it will blow their budget.The accountants,polititions who have ruined the health care system should be ashamed and held accountable.
That's my rant

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Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Yet another problem is that people are not allowed to die...

We are all educated on giving birth, how babies are born, how to care for little children but no-one educates us on how to die, what it is like, what to expect when you get old, how to care for elderly rellies etc

If only the 99yr olds were allowed to die peacefully without having pointless surgery, investigations and trial medications.

If only people realised that full resusitation at 99yrs is not a case of simply bringing you back to life...certainly won't be better than you were before and likely a lot worse :( But everyone still wants the full effort even tho their time is probably up :(

If we had more nursing home beds, or iof people were will ing to care for their own, more acute beds would be freed up for the emergency cases.

Its unbelievable how many cases that could be coped with at home or in the nursing home get admitted to acute care beds...

Ok...off my soap box

I wonder what awaits me at work tomorrow evening :angel:

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Very true.
I discharged my grandmother so she could die in peace at home. My mother would have chosen euthanasia over wasting away in a bed. Wife and I have talked about it and both agree if it is time then remove the machines and let us die.

Pete sorry you other half cops the crap. It's the system not one person. There is only so much in the bucket and only so much one can do.

U are not alone there, waiting times at hospitals is woeful, I dont blame the staff they do the best they can with whats available, My kids play rough at school and now and again we get broken ankles and what not and spend many hours in the ER, I know mostof the night staff on a personal basis, being told u have a procedure at 2 and getting to hospital nice and early to sit around and be told 10 mins before u go inthat its been careful? well I would have not been impressed, I was booked in at the RPA where we go once a month and on the last trip it had been cancelled and they didnt tell us until we arrived at the RPA, I havent been back since, think the receptionist is still hiding under her desk,