In article <[log in to unmask]>, Robbie Coull
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>Also...
>
>Having had much better sleep in Canada for the last four months, perhaps
>simply training nurses to do these tasks in the first place might be the
>best way forward.
We are desperately short of nurses (and beds), rather than doctors. Our
"waiting time to see doc" has got drastically worse since nurses have
been tied up looking after a ward full of medical patients in A&E rather
than supporting the A&E docs to look after A&E patients swiftly. I'm all
for extended role of nurses (as long as they are paid appropriately),
but at the moment, the reverse is true, certainly in A&E: SHOs (and
staff grades and consultants) are doing more and more jobs previously
done by nurses, hence docs seeing less A&E patients per hour.
Apparently that's my fault !????!
Dr G Ray
A&E
Sussex
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