Gemma

Outpatient / Ambulatory Care Nurse 👩🏽‍⚕️💉🏥💊 • Not a Twitter newbie, just prefer to guard my privacy • Views & opinions are my own • #NurseTwitter

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

A pattern across nursing staff in the #NHS

If you are non-white?

Senior posts - less chance
Discrimination - more chance

Data as it stands

Data making you uncomfortable if in senior nurse posts?
Work to change it

Or else you don't believe it- and are the problem
#WRES

[Naseer Ahmad @nas_vascular]

Most people think of patient facing roles being only Doctors and Nurses.

However, there’s a whole other group called Allied Health Professionals (AHPs).

There’s 14 groups that work side by side with us to provide the best care for patients.

[Gemma @GemmaRN_]

@parthaskar Before I left the NHS 3-4 years ago, most nurses on the shop floor were from the Philippines, India, or the Caribbean. I think there was 1 Caribbean matron in the whole hospital, and even the number of POC staff in some bed meetings I attended could be counted in 1 hand.

[Gemma @GemmaRN_]

@NursingNotesUK Can they just work on making sure they launder them instead of me bringing it home to be washed?

[Gemma @GemmaRN_]

Found a severe lack of social distancing in some shops (crowd control needed) and people *still* not wearing masks or wearing masks incorrectly...and we’re just on the first day!

Mates, I foresee a third lockdown. I’m tired as hell of lockdowns but all the fools out there...

[Gemma @GemmaRN_]

Beautiful

[Gemma @GemmaRN_]

@fernandof1974 @Nursesnarrate @filipinonurseuk But you don’t give out your DOB or your address or your visa details in such a public domain. Mother’s maiden name will most likely be on that too. It puts him at very high risk for identity theft anywhere in the world.

[Gemma @GemmaRN_]

@Nursesnarrate @fernandof1974 The photos in that blog have very personal identifiers, like his DOB and home address in the Philippines. Should these not be blurred/removed?

[Gemma @GemmaRN_]

Weird. Most of my health queries don’t require a face-to-face appointment and I actually love that there’s more telephone appointments available now.

[Gemma @GemmaRN_]

My first thought when I saw the news. It’s because of how this govt has operated so far; there’s nothing they’ve done that hasn’t benefited them or their friends

[Gemma @GemmaRN_]

This development in cancer vaccine is such good news 🙌

[Dr. Ayoade Alakija @yodifiji.bsky.social @yodifiji]

@ChifeDr I'm hearing one could be imminent based off of the same mRNA platform used for Pfizer/BioNtech & Moderna covid vaccines. That would be victory indeed!

[The King's Fund @TheKingsFund]

To ensure wellbeing and motivation at work, and to minimise workplace stress, research evidence suggests that people have three core needs. We use an ABC framework to outline eight key recommendations to improve the work lives of nurses and midwives: https://t.co/GM239dE8vv

[Dr Felicia Kwaku, OBE, RGN @felicia_kwaku]

NHS recruits thousands of overseas nurses to work on understaffed wards | The Independent My plea-is to organisations ensure & treat our international nurses well, provide pastoral care & career progression that lifts them from band 5. ⁦@duncan_CNSE⁩ https://t.co/GCdaW1mb5V

[Gemma @GemmaRN_]

@NursingTimes A former colleague can’t even afford to have her child with her because of her nurse’s salary as she’s a single mum.

[Gemma @GemmaRN_]

Thread!

[Jennifer Gunter @DrJenGunter]

One of the original myths of the patriarchy is about the hymen and virginity, but virginity is a social construct and the hymen has nothing to do with the penis. It felt right debunking this myth on #InternationalWomensDay https://t.co/eYpix783mK

[Dr. Deepti Gurdasani @dgurdasani1]

I've seen this happen repeatedly in universities & academic institutes- people with a history of bullying are put into roles that are meant to support of gender equality and diversity. In these roles, these people act as gatekeepers, and further perpetuate these inequalities.

[Prof Nisreen Alwan 🌻 @Dr2NisreenAlwan]

We’re concerned that without strict mitigation measures to control covid spread in UK schools education may be disrupted again due to rise in infection and that would be devastating to everybody. We wrote about making schools safer. Please read and share.
https://t.co/raug9ZwsHk

[Gemma @GemmaRN_]

If this is going out to strike during lunch time...