Nurses appointed to address a nationwide shortage of staff have reported struggling to comprehend phrases like “I’m starved,” which signifies I’m cold in Lancashire, when they have started operating at hospitals outside London.
“It was difficult to comprehend phrases like ‘but’, ‘much’, ‘blood’ and ‘bath’, and there had been other phrases like ‘I’m starved’, which signifies I’m cold.
“We’ve been striving to understand them simply because it’s crucial that we understand every little thing, so we do not make a blunder.”
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust have drafted in about 30 worldwide workers from overseas to plug the shortfall and determined to run the instruction programme to aid nurses recognize dialects as properly as lifestyle outside London.
The trust has mainly recruited nurses from Italy, Portugal and Romania.
Final year a Royal College of Nursing report claimed that there was a shortage of 20,000 nurses in Britain, with around 1 in twenty positions unfilled.
Stephen Mahon, clinical skills tutor, said: “We have a rich history of using global nurses here in Blackburn.
“We are aiming to dispel the assumption that these nurses will discover it extremely hard to perform here since of language barriers.
“They are competent graduate nurses who have a wonderful breadth and depth of expertise and encounter.”
Foreign nurses skilled to recognize Lancashire phrases like "make a brew"
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