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Originally Posted by Gavin78
we've just spent £3000 on 12 of them but they have come from the Ward fund of donations so has a lot of the other wards.
They can't use fans with blades do to infection control
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Language barrier is a huge issue, I often have to repeat what the foreign nurses have said to the patient because they don't undertand what they said.
Plus I find a lot of them wont listen my 11 years in Renal seems to count for nothing because the managers excuse is it's their culture
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They're frightened to offend anyone and that'd include a lot of patients I'm sure, my elderly mum being one. It's the sort of 'logic' which led to all those child abuse cases - fear of upsetting someone = do nothing. As far as I'm concerned being able to properly understand medical professionals is essential and that shouldn't offend anyone, let alone a professional person.
Interesting thing about fans and infection control. I don't recall traditional fans being cited as a common source of infection in the past in the years when MRSA etc. weren't almost endemic in many of our hospitals so has something changed or is the move to bladeless fans just another policy resulting from a desire to be seen to be doing something, anything?...
