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-) Murder House: the Black Dahlia, it was completely pointless, you could simply erase the storyline and nothing in the main plot would change.

-) Asylum: it was one of the best seasons in my opinion, old asylums are already scary on their own... then what was the point of aliens? Why were they so obsessed with Kit? We will never know I guess, all I know is that we would have been better off without it.

-) 1984: the whole Mr Jingles/Margaret was a great plot twist and a good revival of the good ol' 1980s slashers, so what was the use of Richard Ramirez? his relationship with Montana gave me second hand embarassment and we all know Richard died in 2013 in prison, then how was he trapped in the camp? The non sense ruined the season for me

-) Double Features: this is the one that pissed me off. Red Tide was an original plot in my opinion and had some good potential, it was going in the right direction but they gave it a very sloppy ending with no sense at all. Death Valley was just ugly, if the flashbacks were kinda decent the 2021 storyline was just cringe and once again the ending was laughable; the aliens are at it again harassing the humans, they are kidnapping and impregnating random people but we don't exactly know why. Everything was so cringe they could have added flying donkeys as they were at it and nobody would have said a word. They could have sticked to Red Tide and given it a decent ending but no, let's start another non sense plot that has absolutely no relationship to the previous episodes... of the same seasons.

My biggest pet peeve is how they use real life characters and completely twist their storylines to the unbelievable. Madame LaLaurie is the only one I can accept because apparently that's how she was like and Kathy Bates killed it and the same goes with Marie Laveau, everything else could have easily been avoided

Long story short and omitting a lot of details due to confidentiality. The nurse from day shift was handing over a patient to me and we both realised there was absolutely no plan; basically this person bypassed ED and had a direct admission due to a referral from their GP, the only documentation available in the system was from the on call doctor who arranged the admission but it was like "this person is getting admitted for this and that, if scan and bloods worsening will go for this procedure otherwise biopsy tomorrow"... okay, but other than that no clerking, no admission notes and no plan. I contacted the on call doctor for the night who came back to me after 3 hours due to high workload in the Trust, I told them the scan and bloods were out but they were waiting for a specific results and asked me to chase the lab. Not my job but whatever, lab didn't come back to me; once again I chase to know what's the plan with this patient but no answer, so as it was 1am I assumed they were going to stick to the original plan with no extra intervention.

By 5am I accidentally found a prescription for fluids... what? The patient was clinically stable, I couldn't find any possible rationale for that and, guess what, no bloody documentation! Dude c'mon I know we are all busy but you were literally standing next to me, why in the world did you not tell me the patient needed fluids and why?

Anyway I want to stress that the patient was perfectly fine. In the morning I spoke to the NIC who took over, explained them the situation and they gave me the look, if you know you know. I hate to pass on for the lazy or, god forbid, negligent nurse, but how am I supposed to know? There is no documentation, there was no verbal order or whatever, the system didn't flag the prescription (it was an incidental finding) and, I don't know about you, but personally I can't possibly spend the whole damn shift checking on the system just to make sure something that wasn't communicated to me didn't magically pop up. Other than the NIC who gave me THE look everybody else backed me up, but still I want to make sure there was no negligence on my side. What do you guys think? Personally if I want something to be done quickly I document it and inform the allocated person ASAP

I keep hearing people saying NHS has a bullying and "mean girls" culture.Is it true? Yes, like literally every other workplace, your friend who works in Tesco or in the police is going to confirm that. Is whining about it gonna change anything? Heck no.

My previous workplace had a terrible reputation in the whole hospital and the staff turnover was sky high, the culrpits were the usual 2 or 3 people. Back then I was a NQN and the favorite target of the unit big bully, at first I tried to ignore it then to escalate and nothing happened for months. At some point I got fed up of their daily games and harassing so I decided to put an end to it, I didn't need to raise my voice or become unprofessional but just a simple "next time you pull me a shite like that this ward will not be big enough for the both of us"; the bully tried to manipulate the rest of the team and make me look like the ba guy but I couldn't give an eff, ever since I've had no issue putting them back in their place and finally they left me alone.

The bullying I received back in school really did a number on me back then so I know what I am talking about, but when someone tries to pull these pranks on me I tell myself "hang on a minute, I am not a 12 year old skinny ass child anymore, I am a grown ass adult with a professional registration. Why in the world am I supposed to be scared of these losers and put up with this non sense?". It doesn't matter whether you are an HCA, bank staff, a clear, a junior doctor or a NQN, if you work in healthcare I can safely assume you are an adult so it's your responsibility to set up boundaries and protect yourself. I am sorry to break it to you but management won't do much about it, they might have a chat with the bully to remind them "we have to be nice to each other" but that's it, they got more important stuff to think about than coming to solve the playground drama. Is any of that fair? Well of course not, a lot of things are not fair but I am sure y'all know this world doesn't run on fairness, the earlier you understand that the better it is for your overall health. Remember, you are an adult and you are entitled to protect yourself, please speak up and put these frustrated losers back where they belong

Every week we have a meeting to discuss people who have been in the hospital for more than 2 weeks and it looks like most of them are awaiting care/ rehab/ community hospital,... you name it. You can't possibly throw people on the streets but this obviously has a massive impact on patient flow, beds can be occupied for months and patients have to be admitted to other wards due to lack of capacity (not the safest option because the ward team might not be trained for a specialty). I think at this point is common knowledge that lack of funds and cuts on the community services are the culprits and there is nothing none of us can do at the moment. How do you feel about a "step down ward"? My Trust has a few empty wards that are pretty much collecting dust. Something like this would improve patient flow and reduce hospital stays: I have noticed that the more a MFFD patient stays in the hospital the more likely they are to catch some bugs from other patients. Ideally it would be a small ward (not like 28 beds) and, because they are MFFD, they wouldn't need IVs, scans or whatever. What do you guys think?

I am all for patient centered care and trying to accommodate everybody's needs but the situation is getting out of hand, it's common knowledge NHS doesn't have the funds and the facilities and that's nobody's fault, still I feel like everybody woke up and chose entitlement.

Literally on a daily basis I have people DEMANDING to be placed in a sideroom and literally on a daily basis I have to explain those are for clinical reasons only and not personal preference.

Nowadays my Trust has put a leaflet for "call for concern" on every patient's bedside table, that is for poorly people or if someone needs a second opinion urgently... once again it got misused. One of the Outreach nurse told us they audited the calls and a good 95% of them are complaints based on entitlement rather than actual clinical concerns, which is a waste of their precious time.

A few days back we had a patient who called PALS 3 times because they demanded to have a sideroom and the ward to let their 3 small children to stay overnight. I said absolutely not: visitors in general are not allowed to stay overnight unless they are carers, this person is in no condition to care for 3 toddlers and, I am sorry to say, this is not a nursery and I am not taking that responsibility on my back. This person and their family threatened to report us all to NMC because we are forcing them to neglect their children, our ward manager and matron stressed a thousand times it's against hospital rules for safety reasons and they have to arrange their own childcare.

I am extremely glad our management was on a side but still, wtf is going on with people? Why is everybody becoming so entitled? In other fields you are allowed to give Karens what they deserve but of course we can't, if anything we end up being everybody's punching bag and are left to deal with the drama. I am sorry to say but I barely get paid enough to do my job, let alone to reinforce everybody's unreasonable requests

I don't know why but today everybody is in a bad mood and you can see. We are once again short of staff, nobody picks up bank shifts in the week because the pay is shite so we are left to "go with the flow". It's Friday so we have to sort everything out for the weekend because of course in 2026 healthcare still runs on office hours, so if something is left for weekend Friday staff will be blamed.

We have a few difficult patients, physios put them on the chair and run away, 5 minutes after they want to go back in bed but will go on full dead weight mode; family gives me bad look because "just pull them up"... sure thing, why don't I just pull up someone twice my size so that we both end up injured?

Other departments are no help at all either. I already have PACU on my back calling every 5 minutes and sending me their lead because I won't take the patients back. Look, we are 2 people down, I am in charge and got my own patients, I am struggling to discharge people so I have no beds, what exactly do you expect me to do?

Then of course there is ton and ton of paperwork that is just time consuming, the damn phone won't stop ringing and people just turn up in the ward as if it's a walk in center.

I was already on a bad mood because of my personal life but that's my own problem, usually I am quite good at leaving it behind but nowadays it's getting more and more difficult, I'm pretty much on autopilot. Dear NHS, stop making me feel like I am failing the patients because you failed me big big time