Susannah Jenkins

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

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[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@VivJone05046249 @veggieequallife After 36 years as a nurse I thought long and hard but had to make a stand. Enough of abusing goodwill by saying nursing is a vocation. I’m passionate about my work but it is not my life and I should be paid appropriately. Drs feel the same and I support their right to strike.

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@VivJone05046249 @veggieequallife Most nurses unless ANPs don’t diagnose or prescribe and many of us did make the hard decision to strike for better renumeration and improved patient safety. I personally support resident Drs. We need to keep them working within the NHS and not moving for better career prospects.

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@VivJone05046249 @veggieequallife As a nurse I agree with you to a certain extent. All HCPs and all staff involved in health are essential to keep patients well and the system functioning. However you don’t perform the angio or have ultimate responsibility for the medical care for those patients.

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@KimbersHulme71 @veggieequallife Based on the hours he works and what it involves he earns his salary.

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@KimbersHulme71 @veggieequallife Lots don’t because they have full time NHS contracts and if they did private work they’d have no work life balance. Remember they might do a morning ward round and afternoon clinic. That then generates a letters/ communication that needs dictating etc.

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@KimbersHulme71 @veggieequallife Then there’s all th email queries about patients he’s looked after in the past from GPs and other Consultants. These have to be answered ina timely manner as it might prevent someone from having other treatments.

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@KimbersHulme71 @veggieequallife On an on call weekend he covers from 8am Friday morning until 8am on Monday and is in the hospital generally 8-22 and on call from home for emergencies and queries overnight.

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@KimbersHulme71 @veggieequallife Then there’s keeping up to date, research, teaching resident Dr commitments as well as assessing their progress. My husband works a 60+ hr week on average. More when on call.

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

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[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@Matt_Pinner Always. Takes seconds and makes it easier for everyone - why wouldn’t I?

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@Jozinhagirl @Ruth_E_Hill It doesn’t always work like that. Sometimes police or fire are on scene and it makes no difference. If there’s nothing to send then there’s nothing to send. It’s not a singular issue. Lack of community care, no hospital beds, A&E busy etc.

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@jasonkillens Same to you. I hope you managed some rest and recuperation and consumed a few chocolate eggs.

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@DeanHolder68 @WelshAmbulance I suspect they need trained staff - paramedics, ambulance technicians, ambulance care assistants. There is no ambulance driver type post. They all have additional healthcare qualifications.

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@BigSpencer81 @Huckfinnsghost @llantwit Fantastic option. It may not feel like a degree is essential for day to day work but as professions and scope of practice develop we need clinicians with that in depth knowledge. I did traditional training and a diploma with my post nursing midwifery course but I still feel this.

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@TheFrogDies @Huckfinnsghost @BigSpencer81 @llantwit If all allied professional are degree educated and RGN/ RM/ RMH and RLDN are not we will struggle to be respected and go back to being Drs “handmaidens”. The modern nurse is far more than that. Some are autonomous practitioners, registered prescribers and run services.

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@TheFrogDies @Huckfinnsghost @BigSpencer81 @llantwit Absolutely they can, but a qualified nurse should and needs to be degree educated. Nursing is not the same profession as when I trained on a traditional course in the 80s.

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@Huckfinnsghost @BigSpencer81 @llantwit There is a vocational aspect for some nurses but I, after 34 years in the profession could not say I am devoted to my job and always put it first. I have a family and other things I want and like to do. I think those things make me a better nurse by providing balance.

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@Huckfinnsghost @BigSpencer81 @llantwit Because most nurses cannot devote their lives to Nurse but are excellent at their jobs. Also saying it’s a vocation allows our goodwill to be abused. Staying late, volunteering for under staffed shifts etc is an expectation with vocation. Most nurses have lives outside of work.

[Susannah Jenkins @SusannahJenki13]

@Huckfinnsghost @BigSpencer81 @llantwit And there are routes into nursing for them with NVQ which might lead to access courses to prepare them for degree education. In order to be respected as a profession registered Nursing must be degree based. We need bright educated professionals as nursing is moving on rapidly.