Coffee-based life form. CPN in Salford. SJA volunteer. Anti-racist. #ActuallyAutistic Knitter/crocheter, hiker, cyclist, boardgamer. Views my own. (they/them)
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Joined July 2013
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Glad I reserved my handle over on Bluesky in anticipation of an exodus at some point. Find me over there if you want to. Maybe we can make it what #nursetwitter was like back in't'day? bsky.app/profile/caffeinurse…
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@firstdirect hi, my mum is currently trying to get through to you by phone as she believes she has been scammed, but she is unable to get through security as she had thyroid surgery last year and her voice doesn't sound like it used to. How else can she reach you?
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Am I reading correctly that NHS frontline staff are no longer eligible for COVID boosters? ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/26…
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Stoked to be representing @stjohnambulance by organising our entry into the @ManchesterPride parade! 🥳🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ #SJAPride #StJohnPeople
ALT Katie is a femme non-binary person with blue curly hair, standing beside an SJA ambulance wearing their SJA uniform, rainbow face paint, eyeliner in the pattern of a bisexual flag, and rainbow epaulettes
The more I look at the nursing pay award from both this year and every year since I registered, the more I feel like what we really need is to reform the supposedly "independent" Pay Review Body. #FairPayForNursing
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@ManchesterMill would you be able to help raise the profile of this?
Whilst waiting for the card, he is stuck in limbo, living in a hotel room in Manchester, with no access to kitchen facilities, multiple bus journeys away from his support network in Salford (having been moved to Manchester by Serco against his wishes earlier this year).
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@YvetteCooperMP congratulations on your cabinet post!
I am a community mental health nurse in Salford, and I'm working with a refugee who has been waiting for his Biometric Residency Permit for 5 months. These are supposed to arrive within 7-10 days of the decision being made.
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Side rooms are usually meant for patients who are more infectious, or who struggle with the main ward environment due to eg mental health difficulties. Being trans isn't an infection, or inherently a mental health problem.
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So proud of @StNHeather spending so much time and effort on this emergency motion this week, and for getting up to the podium to speak so eloquently and passionately for all students at her very first Congress! #RCN24 @RCNNorthWest
7½ half years ago, all I was worried about was signing off my last few competencies & choosing a job with a good preceptorship.
Now, 3rd year students are unable to find jobs or afraid they’ll have jobs pulled should recruitment be frozen, and I'm heartbroken. #RCN24
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Reps have so much potential, yet support (especially for learning reps) is poor. Not enough places on joint reps conference, infrequent supervision, don't know any other learning reps & I get passed pillar to post when I ask the RCN for help. Why waste my time trying? #RCN24
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If you're asked to throw out expired, unopened medical supplies at work, consider asking your employer/leadership team to consider donating them to Ukraine, Gaza, Burkina Faso, Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia, or one of many other war-torn countries around the world #RCN24
Harmony Owhotake on how individuals can reduce the carbon footprint of healthcare with little actions like reducing unnecessary use of gloves - "drops of water end up in an ocean" #RCN24
To answer @JoannaGrant68's question, there is no parity between social care and health care, and some might argue it's about to get worse.
I work in CMHT, albeit not as a senior nurse, and I spend most of my time providing social work type interventions #RCN24
My work every week includes Care Act assessments, placement reviews, budgeting, PIP/ESA applications and reviews… none of which I've been properly trained in.
Later in 2024, the way CMHTs work is finally changing, and people will no longer have generic care co-ordination #RCN24
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Whilst "rough sleepers" doesn't include people who are in temporary accommodation and B&Bs, the people in temporary accommodation are consistently at risk of becoming a rough sleeper. So, in a way, does that make them included? #RCN24
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Something not really been talked about in the discussion around patient flow at #RCN24 is the impact on people with mental health issues of being admitted to out of area beds.
People are transported hundreds of miles from home, away from their support networks, pets, belongings.
If admitted through A&E or under Section 136, people admitted to OOA beds may not even have a change of clothes.
Informal patients are told if they're not willing to travel to the other end of the country, maybe they don't need help after all. #RCN24
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Loved @gareththomas14's description of a nurse taking him from feeling like a "messed up jigsaw" and helping him "find his corners, and then all the bits in the middle". Such a good metaphor for finding yourself and making sense of who you are. #RCN24
"To campaign, you have to be uncomfortable. You have to go to uncomfortable places." @gareththomas14 #RCN24
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There are not many venues that would even fly the Progress Pride flag, never mind restitch it when told that they'd hung it upside down and back to front. Immense respect to @ICCWales for responding to members who asked for it to be changed. Thank you. #rcn24 @bjgw @Linda_ex_CPH
