[Margaret Pilkington]

If the receptionists accept this responsibility, then they must realise that while they are doing the blood letting, no one is doing the job they are paid to do.

I can remember nurses falling over themselves to take on roles that had previously been done by the junior doctors.
This meant that while they were doing these jobs the patients who wanted to be showered or taken to the toilet or given pain medications did not get it….and it robbed the junior doctors of the experiences of gaining the basic skills…..and the nurse still had her own duties to perform.
The junior doctor was not going to be showering patients for the nurse.
When I brought this up I was told that I was preventing nurses from expanding their roles.