With the toe of my size 11, 12 hole, Doc Marten boot.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has met and struck off two Accident and Emergency nurses from Stafford Hospital, part of Mid-Staffs NHS Trust, where so many died, needlessly.

There have been far too few examples of disciplinary action taken and all of them far too late. In the case of Tracy White, she is not only still employed by the hospital – she’s now a manager!

Despite White being struck off as a nurse, Maggie Oldham the current Chief Executive said of her; “She has been employed as a clinical site manager. We will now take time to give careful consideration to the NMC panel’s decision”.

I’d give her some careful consideration – with the toe of my size 11, 12 hole Doc Marten boot.

It’s her co-defendant I really want to Blog about, Sharon Turner;

She was foul-mouthed and abusive about patients, falsified A and E waiting times to make it appear as though A and E had dealt with patients within the 4 hours target, bullied other nurses into falsifying records and was racially abusive towards junior doctors. Here are a few choice quotes;

“I don’t give a flying F@#k about patients, they can wait”

“I’ll make your life hell and get rid of you in 6 months” (to a fellow nurse)

“I’ll drive you to drink and you’ll be out of here” (to another nurse)

“He should have taken a few more pills and done the job properly” (about a nurse who took an overdose)

“she’s a dirty little monkey” (referring to an elderly patient and refusing to assist a nurse change her)

I could go on. The point is that this nasty, viscious, cruel, lazy, racist bully was as much a menace to her co-workers as she was to the patients who were unlucky enough to receive her ‘care’.

Oh and by the way, Sharon Turner, you are very welcome to take my comments up with me, any time you wish.

One bully is a problem, when it’s tolerated and spreads it becomes the culture at work.

The bully picks on the weak – that’s usually the patients but it’s also workmates who are unprotected.

So Turner picked on junior doctors because they have little respect from their fellow doctors.

In particular, she picked on racial minorities because their colleagues were less likely to protect them.

It was tolerated by her fellow nurses (all guilty of not taking action) because of the bullying attitude that senior medical staff and management have towards nurses and care assistants in general.

Can you tell how angry I am?

Neil Harris

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