Nursing blog

  Blog 2 here we go – I know I can’t believe it either!   Recently I’ve been thinking about the ‘Code’ – you know that NMC one that we all have to follow https://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/code/   Maybe it’s because I have to pay my annual fees soon or maybe it’s because everything’s a bit heavy right now.   It always brings me comfort to go back to the code, it brings me certainty in an uncertain time, allows me to order my thoughts, feelings, reflections in a way that really gets back to what it’s all about. I don’t know about you but I’m tired.   Covid has used up a lot of energy.   Personal tragedy has hit me as I know it’s hit most people – add to that picking up the pieces at work whether it be patients and their family or supporting staff who are overwhelmed.   So, I go back to the code to make sense of it all and number one is ‘prioritise people’.   Now think of those words ‘ prioritise PEOPLE ’, it could just say prioritise patients but it doesn’t.   Sometimes I think

Hi – first blog here – gulp! It’s a bit nerve wracking isn’t it, writing a blog.    That type of thing should be left to important people, who have things to say and know how to spell.    I’m a nurse, which sort of does make me an important person (I'm essential said in the Tik Tok voice). So, I find myself here - somehow writing a blog - because I feel I have something important to say and shine a light on. Shine a light – that’s going to be a key theme! #carrythelamp This is 2020, ‘The year of the nurse and midwife’, Florence Nightingale’s bicentenary.   All of that is  pretty mega and we should be celebrating but … you know … Covid 19 and all that.    Therefore n urses right now need supporting as much as celebrating. This year nursing and midwifery professionals have had to face an unprecedented global pandemic and work harder than ever before.   Imagine working long days in PPE, helping others, yet being in your own crisis, desperately needing emotional and financial s