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#1697019 1-Jan-2017 08:53

joker97:

Put it this way. If the collapsed person were: Prime Minister, Queen, Dan Carter, Receptionist's mother ... you think they'd stick to the policy?

To me, it wouldn't matter. But I wonder about all the other people in the carpark, including all the drivers who were directed to drive around the fallen man. Why didn't they help? Surely there must have been half-a-dozen fit and able people around who between them could have got the guy into a wheelchair?

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#1697027 1-Jan-2017 09:21

frankv:

joker97:

Put it this way. If the collapsed person were: Prime Minister, Queen, Dan Carter, Receptionist's mother ... you think they'd stick to the policy?

To me, it wouldn't matter. But I wonder about all the other people in the carpark, including all the drivers who were directed to drive around the fallen man. Why didn't they help? Surely there must have been half-a-dozen fit and able people around who between them could have got the guy into a wheelchair?

If you were the receptionist and it was your mother you will stick to the policy and not ask for the nurses and doctors to assist and instead wait for ambulance? Wow

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#1697483 2-Jan-2017 10:55

joker97:

frankv:

joker97:

Put it this way. If the collapsed person were: Prime Minister, Queen, Dan Carter, Receptionist's mother ... you think they'd stick to the policy?

To me, it wouldn't matter. But I wonder about all the other people in the carpark, including all the drivers who were directed to drive around the fallen man. Why didn't they help? Surely there must have been half-a-dozen fit and able people around who between them could have got the guy into a wheelchair?

If you were the receptionist and it was your mother you will stick to the policy and not ask for the nurses and doctors to assist and instead wait for ambulance? Wow

I'm not a receptionist, so I can (usually) take a few minutes out of my work day without things going to hell. And I have a reasonable boss, who isn't a slave to policy. So I would help someone I came across, irrespective of who it was (except maybe the Prime Minister. jk). But I would understand if nurses or doctors couldn't help... they have their own pressures.

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#1697507 2-Jan-2017 11:34

Wait till you see the nurses that literally sit on their asses for their whole shift while one or two other staff run around like bats out of hell answering the patient bell calls.

Relevant: Employers are learning that staff from overseas are harder workers than kiwis.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#1697515 2-Jan-2017 12:04

MadEngineer:

Wait till you see the nurses that literally sit on their asses for their whole shift while one or two other staff run around like bats out of hell answering the patient bell calls.

Relevant: Employers are learning that staff from overseas are harder workers than kiwis.

Ive seen a lot of that with nurses....couldnt believe it really.

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#1697558 2-Jan-2017 13:18

Pumpedd:

MadEngineer:

Wait till you see the nurses that literally sit on their asses for their whole shift while one or two other staff run around like bats out of hell answering the patient bell calls.

Ive seen a lot of that with nurses....couldnt believe it really.

I'm curious where you guys have been in a position to "see the nurses that literally sit on their asses for their whole shift".

And a "nurse sitting on their arse" could still be fired for going out into the carpark (for whatever reason) instead of staying at their assigned post.

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#1697588 2-Jan-2017 15:03

frankv:

Pumpedd:

MadEngineer:

Wait till you see the nurses that literally sit on their asses for their whole shift while one or two other staff run around like bats out of hell answering the patient bell calls.

Ive seen a lot of that with nurses....couldnt believe it really.

I'm curious where you guys have been in a position to "see the nurses that literally sit on their asses for their whole shift".

And a "nurse sitting on their arse" could still be fired for going out into the carpark (for whatever reason) instead of staying at their assigned post.

Dont hospitals still have porters to move patients about?

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#1697768 2-Jan-2017 21:39

Porters do move patients about. I don't think they lift them onto the trolleys or wheelchairs though.

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#1697863 3-Jan-2017 13:35

frankv:

Pumpedd:

MadEngineer:

Wait till you see the nurses that literally sit on their asses for their whole shift while one or two other staff run around like bats out of hell answering the patient bell calls.

Ive seen a lot of that with nurses....couldnt believe it really.

I'm curious where you guys have been in a position to "see the nurses that literally sit on their asses for their whole shift".

And a "nurse sitting on their arse" could still be fired for going out into the carpark (for whatever reason) instead of staying at their assigned post.

Position isn't relevant. It goes on all the time, some shifts more than others.

Totally agree that it's not in a nurses or patients' best interest to leave their post.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#1697880 3-Jan-2017 14:12

blakamin:

I bet if someone went to light up a ciggy it'd be "you're in a hospital" straight away.

People seem to do that all the time...

Time to find a new industry!

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#1697886 3-Jan-2017 14:57

I thought it'd be nice to take a walk around the hospital block one day during a lunch break. It's not - all the smokers seem to come out and do the same

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