How Can UK Obesity Strategy Succeed If Frontline Nurses Feel Undervalued?

By sucking it up, the poor babies.

"...a survey by Nursing in Practice of over 1,400 primary care nurses has revealed that staff shortages, frozen PCT (Primary Care Trust) posts, an increasing workload and little recognition of the value of their role have left many primary care nurses disillusioned with the state of their profession.

In fact, the survey reveals that 62% of health visitors describe their current morale as low, 36% feel the amount of work-related stress they experience is "unmanageable", and more than half - 60% - would not even recommend a career in the primary care sector, worrying figures for the government who will be relying on this profession to underpin the new strategy."

Fortunately, the following is not true:

"Primary care nurses work on the frontline of healthcare, and are often the first contact for individuals wishing to lose weight. They offer treatment, diet and lifestyle advice as well as much-needed support to the overweight and obese. They are vital to the success of any obesity strategy. Health visitors alone have a huge influence over the early years, helping parents and families to lead healthier lifestyles."

These whining, greedy, malignant and hurtful nurses are anything but "vital to the success of any obesity strategy."

First, virtually all sick care professionals are in part responsible for the overweight/obesity epidemic since they don't know squat about weight loss.

Second, if the "treatment, diet and lifestyle advice as well as much-needed support to the overweight and obese" were so good, then why do we have an overweight/obesity epidemic?

Shut up.