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<blockquote data-quote="wiflib" data-source="post: 1646542" data-attributes="member: 8588"><p>You saw a health care assistant, someone without any qualifications at all other than being told what to do by someone qualified. </p><p>I had my regular foot check done at my new surgery (they get paid for it so I couldn’t refuse) with an HCA who pointed out I have some hard skin, a small area of fungal stuff and informed me that as a diabetic, it’s important to treat these things. Had she had the training to know how to take a history and understand that not everybody is a brain dead pleb, she would have found out my 40 year history of both of those minor things and how I deal with them.</p><p>She also did the prod test and said ‘now?’ each time she prodded me. When I declined to be weighed, she didn’t know what to do so I told her just to write ‘patient declined’. </p><p></p><p>They are there to do the stuff that supposedly doesn’t need doing by a qualified HCP. I dread to think what she would have made of the ketones in my wee had she dipped it, the last time it happened was with a diabetic specialist nurse who went white and was just about to dial 999 for me. </p><p></p><p>HCA’s know almost nothing*, take no notice of her. </p><p></p><p>*I was one for 20 years and then became a Midwife.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wiflib, post: 1646542, member: 8588"] You saw a health care assistant, someone without any qualifications at all other than being told what to do by someone qualified. I had my regular foot check done at my new surgery (they get paid for it so I couldn’t refuse) with an HCA who pointed out I have some hard skin, a small area of fungal stuff and informed me that as a diabetic, it’s important to treat these things. Had she had the training to know how to take a history and understand that not everybody is a brain dead pleb, she would have found out my 40 year history of both of those minor things and how I deal with them. She also did the prod test and said ‘now?’ each time she prodded me. When I declined to be weighed, she didn’t know what to do so I told her just to write ‘patient declined’. They are there to do the stuff that supposedly doesn’t need doing by a qualified HCP. I dread to think what she would have made of the ketones in my wee had she dipped it, the last time it happened was with a diabetic specialist nurse who went white and was just about to dial 999 for me. HCA’s know almost nothing*, take no notice of her. *I was one for 20 years and then became a Midwife. [/QUOTE]
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