A series of shocking incidents in a privately run residential nursing home in Cornwall is secretly filmed by the BBC.
Panorama: Nursing Homes Under Cover will be broadcast at 20.30 GMT on BBC One on Monday 21 November. If you miss it you can catch up online.
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Omg not taking care of her at all
Why blur her face
I’ve made so many bad experiences in the hospital that I rather want no one ever to call an ambulance on me
So what happened after this?
foreign misfortune unfortunate people worker case
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She is a nurse NOT a Doctor. She can Not know for sure if the patient needs to go to the hospital. She Should be FIRED.
Hello I must make a report of the horrendous experience I have had to endure whilst being in The royal Edinburgh hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland on Morningside. The experience has left me with trauma and completely worried about my safety and life. I need this to be taken very seriously as there has been awful abuse of human rights, we call it murder. I need to speak with panorama and other groups with that type of power. This is something youd find only in a horror film but how tragic that its real life.
Please reply @BBCNews. #BBCNews
Women make horrible healthcare staff
Even in 2024 things like this still go on. We wotked hard to give a better quality of care in a more person centerned.
Since when does a nurse override a patients desire to go to the ER? 🤔
1 nurse and 40 residents. These care homes are to blame as well as they do not want to spend money for additional workforce and yet they are making thousands of pounds each day
The fact that the person who is undercover. Laughs instead of walking off and speaking to someone else. There is a group of people that never get taken seriously. Elderly and ethnic minority groups this is mild compared to what I have heard some nurses say about patients
What I known for years !!!
They do in hospitals they do in psych wards. They even get the police to do it. They’re watching mess up their job because they’re incompetent.
Unfortunately this is common in many nursing facilities for the elderly, But what people need to remember is we have what we have in the UK because of the elderly s generation.
We should be grateful and respectful of that.
Be a voice instead of a spectator for the elderly because it's the least we can do.
The worst misogynists are other women…
Pushing dope instead of helping her with the issue, i didnt even know you could push morphine to elderly patients unless theyre dying and in pain
Absolutely sickening
pschopathy
If you dont like or care about your job anymore get another bloody job🤬🥵🤯
Not the sharpest but definitely a usless tool!🇭🇲
i worked in a residential nursing home in cornwall. that scene shows completely normal procedure in everyday life of a nursing home. either morphine or sleeping pills were issued to calm down patients, pumping dying from cancer old folks full of vitamins and amphetamines to extend their "lifespan" to grab more cash from families, residents who can walk and more or less could have taken care of themselves are also given lots of pills because they are "troublemakers". but then no proper training is ever given to the staff, homes are understaffed and most of people who started their work in care quickly became desensitized and mechanically carried on or quit the job. showing compassion and understanding to residents is seen as a sign of "weakness" and "unprofessionalism" by both owners and "seasoned" staff members. going into residential care home is like going to death camp.
Care plans should be optional, and patient-led at the most. This dangerous neglect could be a widespread ‘political’ problem in hospitals especially those without CCTV. When I’m old or pensioned, I plan to go abroad as sometimes we underestimate other safe options. A lot of people would be alive without unjustified or baseless care plans or if they avoided the ‘free service’ hospital and went private or even abroad. This clip is a clear abuse of the public trust and the only disappointment for me is the colour of office pretext.
Unfortunately caring for the elderly can bring out the best and the worse in people.
Morphine would have shut me up too lmao
This has always been common in UK nursing homes , they will use Ativan , Valium , Morphine to have an easy shift
Oramorph when needed? Why dr prescribe oramorph to any residents?
imagine this thread if the nurse would have been a overseas nurse.
Too many abusers in health care.
If you get tired of your job especially in this industry please resign and save lives in doing so.🤨
I know she was being unprofessional. but what about doctors making life and death decisions, like lets put them in comas oh their dead or their over 70 too old for treatment. It happens all the time I think. at the end of the day Walk a mile in someone elses shoes and then theres the why arn't the children looking after their parents. their like you and I they have bad days too. or have a threshhold they reach. maybe politicians and jornalists should have to do 6 months in dom care. As for empathy when people die around you every month after a few months you need to become harder and care less or I suppose have a breakdown. who supports the suport worker in the community. No one.
Most nurses are not nice , stuck up . They do not Ike to work
Tbh, I am not really shocked and I would like to caution everyone to make any judgement from this short clip alone. We do not know who that resident is, we do not know her illnesses and behaviour, we do not know how direct contact between the nurse and her looks like.
Some may find it difficult to believe, but just because you wear scrubs, you don't suddenly start unconditionally loving everyone to the depths of your heart and neither do patients love us. To work in healthcare and nursing is a very draining job, not least because of the conditions that we have to endure around the world frustration builds. And all that frustration will sometimes show. The key questions is how it will.
Just to present everyone with one possible exculpating scenario: The resident might suffer from dementia and interpret any pain as a nondescript "worsening condition" and demand admission to the hospital twice a day. The morphine might be an absolutely adequate measure to relieve her of that pain and thereby erase that desire to go to the hospital. Certainly, "Some oramorph will shut her up" is not a very courteous way to put it, but she did not say that to the resident herself. She said it in a confidential environment, somewhere where it would not hurt the resident's feelings. She might very well then go up to the patient and politely offer the medication, without showing any frustration to her.
Now, I'm not saying that this is what happened. I am just saying that from this clip alone, we cannot make any inference that she treated patients badly in any way.
Guess how often I'll joke about some patient or another. Have you ever tried to explain a complex medical procedure to someone who didn't know that the term "table salt" refers to the salt we put in our food, to get their consent for said procedure? In the long run you can't go through this again and again without cracking a joke or making a comment to your colleagues every now and then. I would never tell a patient that I think they're stupid and I always do my best to treat them in the same respectful and polite manner I show to everyone. But what I say to my colleagues is nobody's business and certainly doesn't belong on national TV.
It’s not easy but never put your parents in a nursing home
Wow
it's Mophin Time!
Poor lady knows she’s isolated…only a few states in the US allow cameras in the room…terrifying. Calling an ambulance could be to get away to expose the abuse.
That’s disgusting. I’m a nurse and what she’s doing is chemical restraint. Even if the lady had dementia you give them reassurance and care… horrible person.
This is what's wrong with the NHS, and general workplaces all over the shop…
Auld hats…
Auld hats, thinking they know better, looking for the easiest road to take in any situation… Not for the person theyre serving or treating, but for themselves.
No care, no empathy, no skill… No humanity
True loyalty and dedication! This is how to show your commitment, and how you honour the vow that you made to look after your patients.
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This is completely normal. I worked in care homes for years and the staff have literally no care for the elderly at all. This is how they all speak to them.
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Should BE STRUCK OFF
Why are these criminals faces blurred
I don't understand what has happened to nurses they've become cold callous evasive monsters full of anxt pride and arrogance.
The amount of anger and hate displayed by nurses in different medical offices is insane. They speak with so much arrogance and show no willingness to do their job properly. They rarely wear name tags or sign the letters/emails so no one knows who is the disrespectful ones! They are attitudy and lousy. So far havent encountered a decent nurse.
I've worked with some of the most wicked RNs and CAs over the years ever Drs… As an RN myself, I chose to become one, I studied my a§§ off as a single parent, got a diploma back then, I then went onto do my degree getting a first class with honours, 1-1 I was so proud of myself… I didn't do my training to be cruel, if anything I always go the extra mile… If I'm frustrated and it can happen I'm human, take 5 minutes a breather and get back to it… There is NEVER any reason to speak of an individual whose care you are responsible for in such a crass, nasty and totally unprofessional manner…
I always work like I'm under the camera 24/7 I've nothing to hide, I work under cctv knowingly but people hide cameras the most I'd do to be red faced would be to fart and blame the patient… 😂 But in all seriousness these people who simply cannot be bothered answering calls, 8/10 when you go to a patient in a nursing home they're perfectly fine but you still go, even if you have just been explain you'll be back in 10 minutes as with another patient, in the meantime ask a colleague if you're super busy to make them a brew that passes a little time, often anxiety with elderly, confusion but whatever they're asking for make the time… Once I've done my medication round which is always a big round to do, I do observations throughout as needed… Check catheters, offer drinks, have a conversation, if anything I forget to self care, I'm off sick presently having gone through stage 4 non hodgkins lymphoma and covid for which I was on a ventilator… I've been both sides of the bed more times than I care to admit, multiple major operations, I'm also a type 1 diabetic and live with multiple disease and injuries… I need to self care to give my patients my all and be the Nurse that they need and deserve… 💚🐾 When I see attitudes like this it makes me so angry, I'm sure I went there as an agency RN years ago, following this, seeing it now that clinical room looks too familiar, I've worked in many homes where multiple sackings have happened, safeguarding in progress I simply get on, often I'm offered a job but only taken up on a few of such offers over the years those homes I did work for totally changed for the better… I really wish these individuals weren't part of the profession but they're in all walks of life… I did my teachers degree over 10 yrs ago and even there sone of what I came across was just the same… Out of the two I find Nursing a hell of a lot more stressful but I do still love my job… 💚🐾
Her uniform is dark blue. Does it mean she is a sister?
. There's a lot of people in here who don't understand the medical industry there is no way you can understand what was going on here you don't know the patients records. Clearly she knew the person. Because she memorize her medications and knew that she was due for morphine. If it's there as needed and the patient is calling out there is a possibility that the person is in paiin or it is a psychiatric pt. . So she got her pain meds on time and that's a problem LOL come on now stop it. I'm sure she didn't say that in front of the patient. This is a private conversation with who she think is a friend or coworker. How many people have never shown a little frustration behind the scenes. Yeah she seemed a little harsh and I would watch her closely but if this is all you got I'm sorry this isn't enough. Everybody's so judgmental. This is a very small clip I need to see more this is not enough I'm sorry I just can't get on board with this hate train. You know what's real funny I agree with so many folks. Don't take your parents to a home especially if you think that you can do a better job. By all means I truly agree there.😁 God bless your dear hearts
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Why not continue the video?