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Nurse06

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Hello there

I am a children's nurse and wondered if any of you would give me any feedback on experiences (good or bad) you have had with healthcare professionals?

And also maybe some top tips for how you feel nurses can really make a difference and support you or your loved one with diabetes. As many of you probably know there has been a big shift in the NHS recently to try and start meeting higher standards of care for children with diabetes. But as the experts (parents/carers/diabetics etc) I wondered how you felt about the future of healthcare in diabetes?

Thanks so much 🙂
 
Hi Nurse06, welcome to the forum 🙂 I've been generally pretty lucky with the HCPs I've encountered. Some of the consultants have left a little to be desired, often not listening or seeming interested once they spot that my levels are good. the DSNs I have encountered have all been excellent, great communicators and very knowledgeable with a genuine desire to help. It's very worrying to read about the decline in numbers of these nurse specialists at a time when more are needed, not fewer, and also wrong that the ones that are available are often moved onto general duties to cover fr shortfalls in staffing due to cuts :(
 
Our paed team are doing their best. The only downside is that they don't have enough DSNs. We've been told each DSN should have no more than 70 patients. Ours have double that 😱
 
I also have been lucky except when they removed all the DSN's and stashed them away where I couldn't find them. Once I caught up with them again it left me with a complete determination to hang onto em with gritted teeth.

Nurses at the GP surgery are generally useless when it comes to diabetes; haven't really ever had to see one for anything else since I moved here 14 years ago, so really couldn't say if they are any good with anything else. The ones at my old surgery were what I'd call proper nurses LOL - you know, like hospital nurses used to be - knowledgeable, efficient, thorough and very caring.
 
I have a great diabetic team. I am going on holiday, to kos, in september. My diabetic nurse phoned today to let me know she has a loan pump I can take with me, just incase my pump breaks. I pick it up on tuesday. Ages before I go but it will put my mind at rest that I have got everything that I might need, She will write me a letter, explaining all the d things I have to take on as hand luggage.Letter from diabetic nurse is free. Letter from sleep aponea specialist nurse was also free. Dr's letter ?20😱
 
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