Mad Mel and the killer Zombie Nurses

[Gromit]

Feminism has turned our Florence Nightingales into evil uncaring women who want to be men, according to this inspired column by Melanie Phillips.

http://www.dailymail....urses-grand-care.html

Agree?

[pa___ul3]

Joko, I have to disagree with you about you assetion that nursing is a job, not a vocation. You don't go through 3 years of University for a job. It's really not a glamourous job so if it's not for you then you have plenty of time to see what's needed and duck out.
/// Student nurses now studied sociology, politics, psychology, microbiology and management, and were assessed for their communication, management and analytical skills. ‘Specific clinical nursing skills were not mentioned,’ she wrote./// Yes they do study sociology, psychology and communication skills, because it's deemed that nurse / patient communication is highly important, as I'm sure everyone here would agree, they also study in quite a level of depth the various conditions they could be faced with. As what good is communication without knowledge?
What are these 'specific clinical nursing skills'? That's a ridiculously vague comment.
My lass has just got a job in a hospital, she beat a lot of other potential candidates, so the hospitals have a choice to pick the very best candidates.
I'm sure like in any job, there are some who are just bad at their job despite putting on an initially impressive front, I'm sure there are some who become disillusioned along the way, but these men and women who are going into nursing are doing it because they want to nurse, they want to help people get better, I met a lot at her graduation ball and they all couldn't wait to be on the job, making a difference.

Regarding the article, I don't get Ms Phillips' stance, is she blaming the progress of equality throughout the last century or on a current issue? She doesn't make much sense.

[anotheoldgit]

/// Melanie Philips has a strange relationship with feminists.///

/// She can be safely ignored on this subject.///

Now there's a piece of lateral thinking for you.

[Gromit]

Today's Daily Mail also informs us that one in ten nurses are male.

http://www.dailymail....-hospital-nurses.html

Have they strangely been infected with feminism as Mel suggests?

[DrFilth]

pa___ul3 >> You don't go through 3 years of University for a job.<<

you do if you want a decent paid one

[joko]

pa__ul... err yes you do... i did, or are you suggesting an degree subject is vocational?

i know nurses who got into nursing for no other reason than it was a job...they are not all flo nightingale ones you know...

if feminism has wiped out this old fashioned view that all female nurses were just extremely nice people who just want to look after the sick etc, then it ay be sad for nursing, but good for womenkind - but it really should never have been like that in the first place.

they are only human too...and all day being harrassed by stroppy visitors who know nothing about the job who decide that the nurses arent working hard enough and should be sat at their relatives bedside day and night, mopping their brow, cannot be easy and bound to lead to mistakes and stress.

i know some nurses are in deed just carp at nursing and possibly just not very nice people and react beadly and unprofessionally to stress
when i said underpaid - i meant for what they actually do...£14,000 is not great for the long hours, stress and difficulties they encounter...