Genration Kill

Just started watching the series, bit late on the up-take but highly recommend it!

"PEOPLE [HAVE] NO TIME FOR THE

INTERIM BITS OF LIFE.


THEY FOCUS ON THE DESTINATION OF


THE TUBE...AND SO THEY'RE NOT


WILLING TO ENTERTAIN ANY BITS


OF LIFE THAT MIGHT HAPPEN DURING


THE JOURNEY, WHICH IS PRETTY SAD


REALLY." (JARVIS COCKER)

one of the greatest authors of the 20th century

if not the best. i'm refeering to Herman Hesse of course.

heres a BBC dramatisation of the Glass Beard Game. not my favourite of his and it's not going to be as good as reading the actual book but more easily accesiable
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t1016

newspapers mushpapers

I do alot of reading on-line at the moment, it's a way i can feel less guilty about not doing work by reading about what's going on.
heres a BBC article about whats being considered with university fees, interestingly looks like they have considered the point i was making earlier by offering reduced university fees to teachers and i guess nurses as well but making surgeon and lawyers pay more when they have graduated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-10649459

aslo there was another article about the 'people's university'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10285568

also I think this is incredibly interesting, addressing the things you often see in the media of white people being the saviour to other peoples problems.

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/westerners-on-white-horses/

a ipad would be great to sit outside in the garden and read all this crap with a coffee in the morning

look how sodding spoilt those kids are! meant to be crap reading it in the sun anway! damn those rich kids i want one.

This scares the shit out of me

"The true scale of Britain's national indebtedness was laid bare by the Office for National Statistics yesterday: almost £4 trillion, or £4,000bn, about four times higher than previously acknowledged.

It quantifies the burden that will be placed on future generations, and it is the ONS's first attempt to draw together the "off-balance-sheet" liabilities that have been accumulated by the state. The figures imply a huge "intergenerational transfer" – broadly in favour of today's "baby boomer" generation at the expense of younger people and future generations.

The debt primarily consists of the cost of public sector and state pensions, and of payments promised to private contractors under private finance initiatives. It far exceeds any of the figures so far published for the national debt, the largest current estimate for which is £903bn. That is projected to rise to £1.3trn by 2015.

If the current generation of taxpayers wanted to remove the higher bills facing their children and grandchildren, they would now be paying around 30 per cent more in tax."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/britainrsquos-debt-the-untold-story-2025979.html

The article goes on to say that many of the future generation will not experience the luxuries that the current generation have taken for granted such as affordable university. great to think that at my age i've possibly seen the best state that British society will ever be in and from now on will be a decline and even devolution in progress and even now at the decline of the peak there's massive problems and injustices. i wonder if i this problem will be solved in my life time or always lingering in the background to our development.

one of my lecturers said to me the greatest sin of a professional is not to share their knowledge. then whos going to learn when no one can access it.

The other day someone mentioned that a institution like a university is becoming redundant. They asked why most course can not be carried out on-line and by one single national exam body. This may be a extreme idea but seems quite a good one to me. however where would something like a practice based profession like nursing fit into this. open university do provide a nursing course, however i don't know how successful it is.

could university actually be a threat to nursing practice? seems i'm echoing my last post, something to ponder. but will individuals from privilege backgrounds, the ones who will be able to afford the new university fees be inclined to practice nursing. not attempting to classify people by class but to me my nursing cohort is predominately working and lower middle class individuals that come from state run schools. we will lose individuals like me, my friends and colleagues, who have a passion for caring and want to bring changes to the profession. just for the sake of academia?

i asked my friends this and they see the way nursing is heading is to have health care assistants making up the majority of staff and having just one nurse to do I.Vs and medication. arguably that is how it is now and it could be said there is nothing wrong with health care assistant but my god thats a bleak horriable few of nursing. why would we want it to ever turn out this way, with us having minmal interaction with the patients.

Nurse - I Want My Mummy

"The Study comprised of a modified activity sampling of nurses' duties. The results showed that with proper managment the nurses in the wards had time avaible to be able to care for the children's emotinal needs." hawthorn 1974

reading through some old nursing research and textbooks at the uni and finding it funny how modern research still finds the same findings. there seems to be something distincly different about nursing research and textsbook pre 1980's it's more emotinal and human, there seems to be a more postive motivation, that the knowledge being expressed can be utilised to help people. i think weve lost something stiriving to be too professional to show the unqiuness of nursing, in our attempts to push it forward and get it recongized as soemthing vauled against the medical profession, where losing our basic skills of kindness.

It even states in the book that nurses should spend less time with domestic tasks. that other workers can do this and that we spend more time with the children. ha reminds me of one of my lecturers and i always look up to the older nurses, as i find the younger one's who have only been quailfied in the last decade worry a tad too much about EBP and not about the kid. seems funny as it must have been the older genration who've pushed for nursing to go into this direction.