Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺

Nurse 💙🤍

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

And just like that I’m no longer a student nurse! 10 billion words later, 2300 hours, a pandemic and chronic anxiety and I’ve finished. Couldn’t be prouder of my sept 19 cohort 🖤 #studentnurse #nqn #sept19cohort

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

@RishiSunak But yet, degrees such as nursing don’t get the proper funding or backing at the end of it. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

@SteveBarclay And you offer nurses an even lower deal? We all deserve so much better 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

@SteveBarclay You don’t get to celebrate the very thing you are actively destroying. The NHS is made by us, the hard working staff, not by a government that is set out to privatise it.

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

@CraigDavidson85 @theRCN I’m lost for words. I voted to strike. I did have to contact the rcn twice to get a ballot form as my first didn’t turn up. This was our only chance and now it’s all for nothing. They took £1100 off me for this lump sum aswell. The government knew exactly what they were doing.

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

@SteveBarclay You took over 1100 off my one off payment… so not really an incentive.

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

Working as a school nurse we are seeing a HUGE increase in vaping especially in primary ages. It’s disgusting that majority tell me they get them from their supermarkets 🤦🏻‍♀️ #vaping #children

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Boys and girls of primary school age are becoming so ill from vaping they are ending up in hospital, a Sky News investigation can reveal https://t.co/MDhIVsmryP

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

Received my payslip today.
£650 tax
£383 NI
£200 student loan (which I never paid prior)
£1233 taken off me for a “bonus” I didn’t ask for and been pushed into the bracket for student loan. 🤦🏻‍♀️ #nursepay #nursestrike

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

Anyone else having issues getting their ballot paper? Twice I’ve requested a new one. My address is correct and I’m part of the AFC… 🤦🏻‍♀️ yet again I miss out on voting. @theRCN @RCNNRN

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

@Mark_J_Harper If only the Forest of Dean, which is where your based had a good enough bus service?

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

@NurseStandard 3 years I had of this. All I got was “it’s due to pressures with covid” universities don’t want to upset the placement providers.. so they choose to upset their students instead.

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

@mountgirl77 @NurseStandard Unfortunately this does not happen. I’m newly qualified and all I got was “covid”… so basically put up and shut up.

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

@SteveBarclay Really? You take us to court, won’t give us a decent pay package and you want to thank us 🤣🤣🤣 read the room Barclay. We don’t need your thanks we need you to listen!

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

@RishiSunak @SteveBarclay You are delivering anything. The hard working nhs staff are the ones doing it. Your government caused this in the first place.

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

@SkyHelpTeam my internet is not working again 🙄 everytime this has happened we’ve been without sky for days…

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

@SteveBarclay I get £48 a month extra. That’s not including any student loan repayments. I didn’t accept your deal, and the RCN rejected it too aswell as other unions… so absolutely not a great day…

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

@RishiSunak You basically bribed the lower bands into accepting the offer. The RCN members declined the offer and will push for more strike action. Read the room.

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

@SteveBarclay The RCN members didn’t accept it, we don’t want the 5% that’s why we voted to reject it…

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

We did not vote for this. I will now be worse off because of it. I will continue to keep voting to strike until we get what we deserve #NursesStrike

[Nursing Standard @NurseStandard]

BREAKING: Nurses in England set to get 5% pay rise and one-off payment after health unions backed the latest pay offer.

More to follow...

https://t.co/oierMmie2z

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

@SteveBarclay @theRCN @itn Just because Pat recommended it, we didn’t accept it. You can recommend an offer all you want but if the staff refuse it, then you accept their decision.

[Gemma 👩🏻‍🏫🩺 @gemmalou90]

@SteveBarclay @GMB_union @unisontheunion @MidwivesRCM @thecsp What about the ones who have rejected? Oh ye sorry forgot that doesn’t fit your narrative. 🙄