Becky

Registered Nurse in ED 🚑👩‍⚕️

🗣My views are my own

[Ian Higginson 🌈 @RCEM_VP]

Good to see attention on the issue of ED overcrowding (the four-hour standard reflects it). Interested to hear what other parties think given relative silence. @RCollEM⁩ always happy to provide expert input (how to do it, and what doesn’t work) https://t.co/LzewRPzzTJ

[Becky @BeccytheRN]

No matter how many times it's reported @plymouthcc ignore the parking issues around my child's primary school

[Nursing Standard @NurseStandard]

A nurse has been suspended by the NMC for 'bullying' behaviour.

Anonymous concerns were raised in 2019 about his behaviour towards colleagues and a nursing student he was supervising.

https://t.co/BU7O2gTDBx

[Luke Pollard MP @LukePollard]

I’m v concerned about the pressure on Derriford hospital right now.

The critical incident declared by on Monday is ongoing and serious.

I want to thank @UHP_NHS staff for working so hard to look after huge numbers of very poorly people at the hospital currently.

[The RCN @theRCN]

Patients receiving care in corridors should never be the norm, but we see it more and more, especially during winter.

If patients are receiving care you think is unsafe you should escalate it - use our template: https://t.co/tZUV73SeMn

[Luke Pollard MP @LukePollard]

This evening I have written to the Health Secretary @VictoriaAtkins about the ongoing critical incident at Derriford Hospital.

I have asked her to to convene a meeting of Plymouth MPs and health officials to discuss what interventions can be made to support the hospital.

[Becky @BeccytheRN]

This working week I have experienced more verbal aggression and verbal abuse than ever in my entire career.
We are trying ,
Every day we show up knowing we are walking in to chaos.
Just please be kind to Emergency department staff.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

This is so true.

But please RT if you’re not prepared to let the NHS go without a fight.

[Jess Morgan @drjessmorgan_]

3 years ago today,

my daughter had open heart surgery.

She was 5.

As I mum, I worried she would die.
As a paediatrician, I was utterly helpless.

I could remember the fear,
the tears & terror,

But instead, I remember Emma,
the nurse who changed everything.
A 🧵.

[The RCN @theRCN]

NEW 🚨 | NHS England Sickness and Absence Rates show an increase in nursing staff sickness caused by anxiety, stress, depression & other psychiatric illnesses, making up 26.1% of all absence in June 2023.

Failure to invest in the NHS forces staff to become patients themselves.

[Becky @BeccytheRN]

@BethCWhits 100% agree🤣 and of course I'm wrong for thinking these are inappropriate 🤭

[Becky @BeccytheRN]

@BootsUK why are you closing a successful and profitable pharmacy that serves a vulnerable community? The staff are amazing , listen to us the customers
Please keep it open.
@LukePollard do something please.

[Becky @BeccytheRN]

🤣 I'd like to see this illustrated and avaliable in all ED's 😂

[Rob Galloway @DrRobgalloway]

We need to solve the overcrowding crisis in A&E. I may have the solution!

It came to me whilst reading my son " A squash and a squeeze" by Julia Donaldson (author of the Gruffalo)

A&E Squash and a Squeeze, adapted by Rob Galloway

A little old A&E, lived all by itself , with cubicles and chairs and a water jug on the shelf.

A wise old health secretary heard her grumble and grouse, “There’s not enough room in my A&E house.

Wise old health secretary, won’t you help me, please? My A&E house is a squash and a squeeze.”

“Take in your drunk and disorderly patients” said the wise old health secretary man

“Take in my drunk and disorderly patients? What a curious plan.”

Kept in A&E, instead of a cell, they vomited on the rug,

And flapped round the cubicle, knocking over the jug.
.
The little old A&E cried, “I implore? It was poky before and it’s tiny for more.

My nose has a tickle and there’s no room to sneeze. My A&E house is a squash and a squeeze.”

And she said, “Wise old health secretary, won’t you help me, please? My A&E house is a squash and a squeeze.”

“Take in your awaiting medical bed patients,” said the wise old health secretary man.
.
“Take in my awaiting medical bed patients? What a curious plan.”

Well, the awaiting medical bed patients pulled back the curtains and trod on the bed,

``then sat down to eat via her long term peg.

The little old A&E cried, “Glory be! It was tiny before and it’s titchy for more.

The drunks attacked the awaiting medical bed patients and the awaiting medical bed patients got fleas. My house is a squash and a squeeze.”

And she said, “Wise old health secretary, won’t you help me, please? My A&E house is a
squash and a squeeze.”

“Take in your awaiting mental health bed patients ” said the wise old health secretary man.

“Take in my awaiting mental health bed patients ? What a curious plan.”

So she took in awaiting mental health bed patients who kept pressing the alarms in cubicle ten

And raising everyone’s blood pressure again and again.

The little old A&E cried, “Stop, I implore! It was titchy before and it’s teeny for more.

Even the mental health patients in the cubicles agrees, My A&E house is a squash and a squeeze.”

And she said, “Wise old health secretary, won’t you help me, please? My house is a
squash and a squeeze.”

“Open an urgent care centre,” said the wise old health secretary man
.
“Open an urgent care centre? What a curious plan.”

Well, the urgent care centre attracted the 111 referred worried well,

Whose long waits created an unpleasant waiting room smell

The little old A&E cried, “Heavens alive! It was teeny before and it’s weeny for more

I’m tearing my hair out, I’m down on my knees. My A&E house is a squash and a squeeze.”

And she said, “Wise old health secretary , won’t you help me, please? My house is a squash and a squeeze.”

“Take them all out,” said the wise old health secretary man.

“But then I’ll be back where I first began.”

So she persuade the police to remove the aggressive men

“That’s better – at last I can sneeze again.”

They opened up ward beds and she gave a jig

“My A&E house is beginning to feel pretty big.”

She persuaded the 111 patients to self discharge where safety would allow.

“Just look at my A&E house, it’s enormous now”.

“Thank you, old health secretary for saving the day, Our A&E is so big now, our staff might just stay.
.
There’s no need to grumble and there’s no need to grouse. There’s plenty of room in my A&E house.”

And now she’s full of frolics and fiddle-de-dees. It isn’t a squash and it isn’t a squeeze.

Yes, she’s full of frolics and fiddle-de-dees.

It isn’t a squash or a squeeze.

[Becky @BeccytheRN]

Another day @plymouthcc
You closed the cases I submitted yet look around!
Cars/ taxis parked on yellow lines and school crossings
I had to walk around several cars to get to the school
Do something before a child gets seriously Hurt.

[Becky @BeccytheRN]

@plymouthcc @LukePollard I submit the The parking issues form every day online

[Becky @BeccytheRN]

@plymouthcc @LukePollard
I dread the school run, my youngest is afraid to walk to school .
The constant parking issues on Oxford Street :
Parking on school crossing / keep clear and yellow lines
I report it every day noone cares.
Sort it, before someone is killed.

[Becky @BeccytheRN]

@CursoryB @plymouthcc They already do on Oxford Street 🙈

[Becky @BeccytheRN]

The school do their best, constantly asking parents not to do it but none cares.
It's a deathtrap.

[The RCN @theRCN]

- Figures released today show NHS waiting lists up by 500k to over 7.6 million, target missed

- 13% fewer students on nursing courses

- 43,000 nursing vacancies in the NHS in England alone

This is the reality of the NHS.