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Nurses’ sex talk just reflects today’s values

LORD Mancroft has accused nurses who treated him at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, of being promiscuous and discussing their drinking and sexual exploits in front of him.

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AND BACK IN REALITY....

12.03.08, 6:17am

What are the names of these irresponsibility promoting magazines for young women? As a young woman who reads many magazines they all promote a sensible attitude to drinking, personal safety, sex etc and campaign on many issues relevant to young woman today.

The commenters who state that nurses were banging in and out of the ward laughing...did you complain at the time? As for fones ringing and other talk that would come under the heading work. No, it's not easy getting a sleep in hospital - I've been on sleeping tablets since a 6wk hospital stay but illness and care do not go on in only daylight hours.

Lord Mancroft's hospital stay was over a year ago. he didn't complain then and also got himself transferred out to a no doubt private hospital so how this is now news I no not!!

Nurses are degree educated professionals so to expect them to be so easily influenced by others or the media is laughable as is expecting them to clean our wards - that's the cleaners job and if it's not done correctly that's because the Tory Govt of the time gave this work to private companies whose motivation was profit not the complexities of the job in hand.

• Posted by: ElleEmmCee • Report Comment

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I TOTALLY AGREE

06.03.08, 2:59pm

I've seen and heard it. The standards are appalling.But then, TV doesn't help, where all the hospital based programs show Dr's and nurses getting up to all sorts. I'm not sure if fiction is based on reality or reality is copying fiction. There are no standards of behaviour anywhere in our society today. It really is depressing.
My daughter was treated at the RUH Bath, nurses didn't give a seconds thought to patients trying to sleep at night, they would crash in and out of the wards all night laughing and shouting, phones constantly ringing, at a time when people are in need of their sleep. I was shocked.
In Plymouth's Derriford Hospital, my mother and sister were left passing bowl after bowl of blood between them that my Stepfather was bringing up (lung cancer) whilst the 'Dr' just said 'I'll leave you to it then' and went off to sit on the nurses station all night laughing and joking. Absolutely appalling, shocking and professionally outrageous.

• Posted by: Jac16 • Report Comment

NURSES' SEX TALK JUST REFLECTS TODAY'S VALUES.

06.03.08, 1:24pm


Well put ms W.

A point I wish to make :- What of virus.?

Please read my previous articles.

Juan01

• Posted by: juan01 • Report Comment

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TOP MARKS FOR COURAGE

05.03.08, 9:55pm

As a nurse myself - of the old-school, I must add - I must say I agree. Top marks to Lord Mancroft for having the guts to say this in an era where it is assumed that if you criticise nurses you are a fire-breathing monster, or worse - in their eyes - a Tory. AW speaks the unattractive truth, that our young people, including nurses, are products of the society that they are immersed in, not of older values that tell them there is something better that they can aspire to.

Unfortunately, Norris is an extreme example of what AW is talking about, in that he reflected the values of the society he was immersed in, and that society does not value age and experience.

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