Gosh Glenn, haven't your team gone "au naturel" yet?? It's all the rage up North you know!
On a more serious note, I echo your comments regarding the RCN and salaries for nurses. I equally agree with Amanda's comments regarding the ridiculous increase in registration fees for us.
I qualified as an SRN back in 1977 and I can clearly remember sending a supposed one-off payment (I think it was around £60) to register and this was supposed to cover us for the rest of our career. Now we pay extortionate amounts and this has gone through the roof this year when we are expected to pay £76 for the privilege of staying on the register! To add insult to injury, this is going to be a yearly sum! As a qualified nurse, midwife and OH practitioner, it's a good thing I only practise OH!
We haven't had a decent pay rise for many years and I suspect the government assumes we are all "angels" who would not dream of going on strike as we would compromise patient care.
We need to take some action but what sort of action eludes me!
There, I've had my rant so I will go back to my work feeling at peace with the OH world!!!
Kind regards,
Rita
Rita E Ogden
Specialist Practitioner/Clinical Team Leader,
Occupational Health Service,
St. James's University Hospital
Tel: 0113 2065228
Leeds General Infirmary
Tel: 0113 3923267
>>> Glenn Raybone <[log in to unmask]> 18/10/2007 09:49 >>>
Rita
you do mean wearing something though don't you and not in the nip?? You'd
get arrested doing that!!
Personally I wouldn't subject anyone to seeing me without anything on, well
certainly not first thing in the morning, but I'd love to see HR's
reaction, and perhaps they'd refer me to myself????
oh the mind boggles!!
Regards
Glenn
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