My wife is a nurse working in a very busy Oncology unit. She has her own job to do and now also the job of another department due to staff leaving. The staff are leaving regularly but not being replaced due to cuts!
She works longer hours than contratced and is not paid any extra. She is constantly abused by the public who are forced to wait long beyond their appointment time due to the lack of staff.
Many times after she has come home in tears I suggest she leaves, but as a caring person she says ‘yes but then that gives the problems to someone else’.
She qualified over twenty years ago, and agrees the ‘new’ degree nurses don’t want to get the hands dirty and many of them don’t understand the principles of basic care.
Oh and the best bit…….. she’s just had her pay cut!