You're right,
paediatric intensive care nurses never get the recognition they deserve as over-qualified, over-paid babysitters, do they?
You fucking numpty.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 31 Oct 2010, 9:28, 2 replies)

Em...
who are you argueing with? :s
( dazbrilliantwhites has been meaning to change this..., Sun 31 Oct 2010, 10:36, closed)

Seriously, my friend,
I can see the point you were trying to make, but you've ended up taking a group of dedicated, hardworking, under resourced and often unappreciated nurses, and likened them to a group of teenagers, whose highest qualification is probably "being unlikely to steal all your booze."
Basically, a fine example of the sort of ham-fisted, irrelevant, "look at me, I'm a parent" statement, that new parents are wont to come out with (the kind of thing that I'd like to stop myself from doing quite so often).

Anyway, glad to hear that your sprog is OK. A stay in intensive care is a pretty gruelling, and often frustrating experience, but the nursing staff are excellent (unlike doctors, but that's an anecdote, or two, that I'll attempt to supress at this juncture).
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 31 Oct 2010, 22:04, closed)

Not really
I described the environment they work in and the the workload they carry. I may not have went into every detail but intensely emotional says a lot on its own. Well done on your self regulation of ham fisted, irrelevant "look at me, I'm a parent" statements. Anyone who can resuscitate a premature baby would be deemed qualified in my books.

I don't know why you misread the post and that's being honest.
( dazbrilliantwhites has been meaning to change this..., Sun 31 Oct 2010, 23:31, closed)

If resuscitation of a prem baby
is what you expect of your sitters, I doubt you'll be getting a night off anytime soon.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 1 Nov 2010, 19:45, closed)

Yes yes,
Very good.
( dazbrilliantwhites has been meaning to change this..., Mon 1 Nov 2010, 20:38, closed)

Oh I see,
You are saying that Daz is running intensive care nurses down by calling them over qualified babysitters?

I think that you sir are the numpty who has missed the point on a epic scale.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 31 Oct 2010, 12:59, closed)

I've spent more than enough time,
watching the nurses in the paediatric ITU look after my, and others', newborns. Fantastic people, doing an incredible job. Not once did I think, "Wow, you guys are excellent babysitters."
"Damning with faint praise," is the phrase I'm looking for, here.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 31 Oct 2010, 21:06, closed)