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I’ve just started as a band 5 midwife and I am already looking at other job positions as I feel so unhappy, arrived on my 2nd day shift supernumary to everyone phoned in sick so they had to pull from other wards for staff, and I had to work alone, I was petrified, I’m in a new hospital new people new policies and I felt so so so unsafe.
I worked so hard for my degree and I feel so deflated already as there is so little support and staff sickness especially right now is absolutely awful, it puts you at risk and your patients and risk and it’s so scary.
In the wards I’m in, it’s antepostnatal, my hospital is so old there is no emergency buzzers…. It is terrifying anything could happen.
I just need to know what else I can do with my degree, I feel so lost because as much as I’m. Going to try and continue I am struggling so so much. I don’t know what else to do and I am stuck, has anyone been in my position and done something else, I need a glimmer of hope as I feel there is no light at the end of the tunnel
Help pls!!!!!!,!,
I worked so hard for my degree and I feel so deflated already as there is so little support and staff sickness especially right now is absolutely awful, it puts you at risk and your patients and risk and it’s so scary.
In the wards I’m in, it’s antepostnatal, my hospital is so old there is no emergency buzzers…. It is terrifying anything could happen.
I just need to know what else I can do with my degree, I feel so lost because as much as I’m. Going to try and continue I am struggling so so much. I don’t know what else to do and I am stuck, has anyone been in my position and done something else, I need a glimmer of hope as I feel there is no light at the end of the tunnel
Help pls!!!!!!,!,
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by Chestnut3636I’ve just started as a band 5 midwife and I am already looking at other job positions as I feel so unhappy, arrived on my 2nd day shift supernumary to everyone phoned in sick so they had to pull from other wards for staff, and I had to work alone, I was petrified, I’m in a new hospital new people new policies and I felt so so so unsafe.
I worked so hard for my degree and I feel so deflated already as there is so little support and staff sickness especially right now is absolutely awful, it puts you at risk and your patients and risk and it’s so scary.
In the wards I’m in, it’s antepostnatal, my hospital is so old there is no emergency buzzers…. It is terrifying anything could happen.
I just need to know what else I can do with my degree, I feel so lost because as much as I’m. Going to try and continue I am struggling so so much. I don’t know what else to do and I am stuck, has anyone been in my position and done something else, I need a glimmer of hope as I feel there is no light at the end of the tunnel
Help pls!!!!!!,!,
I worked so hard for my degree and I feel so deflated already as there is so little support and staff sickness especially right now is absolutely awful, it puts you at risk and your patients and risk and it’s so scary.
In the wards I’m in, it’s antepostnatal, my hospital is so old there is no emergency buzzers…. It is terrifying anything could happen.
I just need to know what else I can do with my degree, I feel so lost because as much as I’m. Going to try and continue I am struggling so so much. I don’t know what else to do and I am stuck, has anyone been in my position and done something else, I need a glimmer of hope as I feel there is no light at the end of the tunnel
Help pls!!!!!!,!,
Hi
I am really sorry you went through this, this sounds extremely unsafe especially the part where there is no hospital buzzers, low patient and staff safety that definitely needs attention drawn to!. Are you considering leaving midwifery because of the actual midwifery parts or because of the safe environment? Unfortunately seeing such horrors on your day 2 can really put you off midwifery as a whole. But it is a flexible degree where you can work in health visits, move privately, sexual health clinics, neonatal units or move to a hospital where there is more support.
Wish you all the best
-Sarah (Kingston Rep)
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by Chestnut3636I’ve just started as a band 5 midwife and I am already looking at other job positions as I feel so unhappy, arrived on my 2nd day shift supernumary to everyone phoned in sick so they had to pull from other wards for staff, and I had to work alone, I was petrified, I’m in a new hospital new people new policies and I felt so so so unsafe.
I worked so hard for my degree and I feel so deflated already as there is so little support and staff sickness especially right now is absolutely awful, it puts you at risk and your patients and risk and it’s so scary.
In the wards I’m in, it’s antepostnatal, my hospital is so old there is no emergency buzzers…. It is terrifying anything could happen.
I just need to know what else I can do with my degree, I feel so lost because as much as I’m. Going to try and continue I am struggling so so much. I don’t know what else to do and I am stuck, has anyone been in my position and done something else, I need a glimmer of hope as I feel there is no light at the end of the tunnel
Help pls!!!!!!,!,
I worked so hard for my degree and I feel so deflated already as there is so little support and staff sickness especially right now is absolutely awful, it puts you at risk and your patients and risk and it’s so scary.
In the wards I’m in, it’s antepostnatal, my hospital is so old there is no emergency buzzers…. It is terrifying anything could happen.
I just need to know what else I can do with my degree, I feel so lost because as much as I’m. Going to try and continue I am struggling so so much. I don’t know what else to do and I am stuck, has anyone been in my position and done something else, I need a glimmer of hope as I feel there is no light at the end of the tunnel
Help pls!!!!!!,!,
Hi, I would advise that you question if this trust overall is safe to work at as a whole. Even if you were to change the area you work within it could be the same culture. Please contact relevant members of staff to discuss this lack of safety for staff as well as women using the service.
Trenyce (Kingston rep)
(edited 2 months ago)
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