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Sue Crocombe

@shinybluedress.bsky.social
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Critical Care (ICU) nurse, Salisbury. #nursesky Loves Dorset & Cornwall Am also on Twitter (X) but am disillusioned by it Here’s me on Newsnight during COVID youtu.be/hHcTZ8tHKW8 Also a CSAsurvivor www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0390214

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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Medical Pumpkins 🎃 #happyhalloween
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Please please please share and comment about this thread of posts below concerning the use of pedal bins in disabled access toilets #disability #disabledaccess #disabledtoilets #ableism
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
A🧵about Pedal Bins in #disability toilets: 1) Having used said toilets over past 4 weeks I’ve found a major flaw in ALL bar one Pedal bins With no other way to open them except with a foot How crazy is that:
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Euan's Guide @euansguide.com · 29/01/2025
Hi BlueSky! We’re Euan’s Guide, the award-winning disabled access charity best known for EuansGuide.com – the go-to site for disabled access reviews. Happy to be here! We make thousands of accessible toilets safer, run the UK’s largest Access Survey, and lots more. Find out more: bit.ly/EG-AboutUs
A picture of the Euan's Guide team at the Euan's Guide offices. Founder Euan MacDonald is at the front, with team members seated around a table. The office is well-lit with large windows and a bright yellow feature wall.
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Waiting for emergency surgery in the sunshine #maisonneuve fracture #medsky
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Even in the rain the gardens look beautiful at @kingstonlacey.bsky.social
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🚨Breaking: The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the meaning of ‘woman’ in law is based on biology. Phew.
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David Stafford @uroonconurse.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
action.rcn.org.uk/page/166204/... Did you know that 'Nurse' isn't a protected title in the UK? Anyone can call themselves a nurse, even without training. Help protect patients and the profession—ask your MP to sign the petition to make 'Nurse' a protected title! #ProtectNursing #PatientSafety
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Tell your MP to #ProtectNurse
I've told my MP to protect the title nurse in law. Will you? Together we need their support to see the bill up before government given time for debate. Only registered nurses should be able to use the...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
BREAKING: The UK, France and Ukraine will work on a ceasefire plan to present to the United States, the prime minister has said, in the wake of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's White House clash with Donald Trump news.sky.com/story/wester...
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Western leaders to work on Ukraine ceasefire and present plan to Trump, says Starmer
The UK, France and Ukraine will work on a ceasefire plan to present to the United States, the prime minister has said, in the wake of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's White House clash with Donald Trump.
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Crescent moon 🌙, Venus & Salisbury Cathedral at sundown yesterday @salisburycathedral.bsky.social
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I took this photo from our back door last night & a knowledgeable friend told me what I was looking at: Mars, Castor & Pollux: Below them - Orion & lots of bright stars inc the distinctive belt running left-right & the sword below it running roughly up-down #astronomysky
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artpeace.bsky.social @artpeace.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Agree. But Trump KNOWS that. This was planned. It was unpresidential, incredibly rude, and as Trump showed by his final remarks, only meant for his base. It has backfired on him though. 👍
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
BREAKING: WHO BEARS THE MOST RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE OVAL OFFICE ARGUMENT? WITH 79,312 VOTES 👏
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 28/02/2025
This pair of absolute thugs berating, bullying & humiliating President Zelensky because he won’t roll over for a dictator whose forces have invaded his country, raped & murdered his people, bombed hospitals, killed children & filled mass graves in the forests. What a vile, venal pair they are.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
it's not just this. It seems pretty obvious to me that Trump would *love* to be a dictator and sit on a golden throne and have people fawn over him all day long. Basically a James Bond villain type dictator of the early days with hench men and dancing girls.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency.
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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Sue, this is such a lovely message to receive and so kind of you. THANK YOU! And thank you also for your hard work in the ICU. That is far more impressive
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Rosy Favicchio @rosyf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
As the #measles outbreak continues, and has now unfortunately resulted in the death of a child, I see a lot of posts along the lines of: "I had measles as a child and I'm fine". Let me tell you a different version of that story: 🧵1/11 🧪 #medsky
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Note the fact that they’re not wearing gloves. (Circa 1970s prior to Universal Precautions when gloves weren’t worn for anything except in theatres) For dressings, we were simply taught good hand washing techniques & we used forceps for a non-touch technique #nursesky
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Feeding the ducks 🦆 didn’t go quite as planned #grandparenting #blueskykids #blueskygeese
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Feeding the ducks 🦆 didn’t go quite as planned #grandparenting #blueskykids #blueskygeese
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I asked this Question to our private “40th nurses reunion” FB group: “Does anyone know when nurses were finally allowed to get married but still work as a nurse?” See one of the replies 🤭 #nursesky #historysky
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
When you get a card from your toddler grandchild… made with their fingerprints #ohmyheart ❤️ #blueskyart
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If we brought back community care hospitals, A&E would work as it should rather than overflowing with no sign of improvement City hospitals can have circa >130 acute beds with patients medically fit but unable to go home due to req’ing rehab/care Imagine if those beds were freed up?
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NurseKelsey (she/her) 🌈✨🎉❤️🏳️‍🌈 @nursekelsey.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
NurseSky Starter Packs! If you're looking to find & follow your fellow nurses on BlueSky, well look no further. Here we are! #1: go.bsky.app/8ZMxNSz #2: go.bsky.app/63iHmya I'll update these as I get more names and keep a master list pinned in my profile. Please follow and share so we can spread!
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Siobhan @nhsactivistrn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Over 13 thousand people are sitting in hospitals across England who have no medical need to be there this week. Social care is at a standstill and it is paralysing the flow in #NHS hospitals
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Chris Ham @chrisham.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Improving how hospitals work may help but the causes of the crisis in emergency depts are found in shortages of community services and neglect of prevention. A whole system response is essential Hospital advertises for ‘corridor care’ nurses to ease NHS crisis www.thetimes.com/article/410d...
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Hospital advertises for ‘corridor care’ nurses to ease NHS crisis
The new jobs have been labelled a ‘total acceptance of failure’ as oxygen lines are installed outside wards
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
103 years ago today 14 yr old Leonard Thompson dying from type 1 diabetes became the first person to receive an injection of insulin on 11/1/1922 My hubby is 65 & insulin has been keeping keep him alive since he was 12 Thanks to insulin & good management he’s still fit & healthy #medsky #insulin
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 09/01/2025
Nursing staff are working harder than ever to hold NHS services together, but the number of people in hospital with flu is 5 times more than at the start of December. Professor Nicola Ranger told @bbclaurak.bsky.social that pressures in hospitals are all year round, not just winter.
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Dr Linda Dykes @drlindadykes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Like thousands of other UK ED staff I’m heading into a shift in a Trust that has declared a critical incident. I’ve got a flask of tea, taken a (prescribed) propranolol, will go in & do my best but also remember I can only do what I can do, and I can’t fix a system that was destroyed by the Tories
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Dear Keir Starmer, The public has never been asked about privatising the NHS, let alone given its permission. All evidence is that NHS privatisations is more expensive and has poorer outcomes for patients. Where is your voter mandate for doing what you are doing?
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Today on a cloudless sunny blue sky day we did the Spire Tour of @salisburycathedral.bsky.social #bluesky
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
#WaxingCrescentMoon 🌒🌙 Photo taken from my garden with an iPhone! #Dorset #UK #moonsky
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
So last night was a busy shift but we just about managed to gather together in time to raise a plastic cup of Nosecco 🥂 at midnight #HappyNewYear #NightShift #ICUnurse
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Tonight I will be seeing the new year under bright coloured lights & in style: Recording the patients hourly observations at midnight #HappyNewYear #ICUnurse #nightduty
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
#happychristmas #nhssky #nursesky #medsky (Masks =my own supply)
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
#happychristmas #nhssky #nursesky #medsky (Masks =my own supply)
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Shift work at Christmas = early preparation #ICUnurse #Grandma #LoveMyFamily #nursesky
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Brilliant article. In a nutshell “The key to maintaining a proficient and productive workforce is retention of experienced staff. However, most healthcare policy focuses on supply and training more new people to fill the leaky workforce bucket.’ #nursesky
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Alison Leary @alisonleary1.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
My latest @bmj.com on why an experienced workforce is necessary for safety and productivity www.bmj.com/content/387/...
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“Rookie factor”: why healthcare workforce policy needs to embrace experience
What price experience? I have been working across several safety critical industries for years and in terms of the approaches that these industries take to workforce issues there are some stark differ...
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
It’s only Thursday, but this is what happens when you do shift work. Nights, days…never the same pattern each week - so who knows what day it is?
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Corridor nursing (in ED) Why has something so unacceptable become the the acceptable norm? #nursesky #medsky
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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The 10-year-plan will say what we all expect. The problem, as with the last 10 plans, will be implementation and that is going to cost a lot on top of the existing system. We lack the staff. We lack the change ability. Good read from the Nuff here:
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Siobhan @nhsactivistrn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
In the recent 24hrs the Taliban have shut down access to nursing and midwifery training centres for female students. I literally cannot fathom the impact this will have on the Afghan people in particular women. More here: www.google.com/amp/s/www.bb...
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Afghanistan: Women suspended from midwife and nurse training
Women at training colleges across the country were told they are not allowed to return to class.
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Candy Gregory @candyrn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A national disgrace. Overpriced housing. Insecure renting.
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Leanne Patrick QN @leannehpatrick.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Join us, two weeks from now, for another #NurseSky #SkyChat where we discuss current affairs and issues in nurisng. The topic is "Nursing's image and identity" See you all there! Sunday Dec 15th at 7pm.
A pale blue background with a cartoon image of Florence nightingale at the bottom right. Above her are light blue and pink speech bubbles. The text, in a dark grey blue covers most of the image and reads "Join us for another #NurseSky Sky Chat Sunday December 15th at 7pm".
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Sue Crocombe @shinybluedress.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Shocking. In the UK insulin is free
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