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Can't really blame them, Nathan did a late last night, he again, it's about five times now, had to leap on a man and restrain him from hitting a nurse in A&E. They face violence in the work place daily. The nurse was on her first week in the hospital very shaken up will she stay ? He doesn't think so. Then as you say all that money to train, and they rarely earn enough to buy a house or rent a home for themselves have to live like students in shared rooms etc.Re: Nurses leaving the NHS.
I agree we should value our nurses more, my son's partner is a paediatric nurse she works in the community with at risk children in just about the worst part of Bradford. She tells me she often feels at risk herself.Re: Nurses leaving the NHS.
I saw a few days ago that we're trying to recruit medical staff from India, it's worrying that we are taking qualified people from countries that need them themselves with promises of better training and lifestyles.Re: Nurses leaving the NHS.
My DIL left the NHS some years ago (at the time of the Blair government in fact so there have been problems for many years) She was a Sister specialising in renal nursing and got sick to the back teeth with the paperwork/too many managers not enough nursing staff/being left all night with one nurse on a busy ward /taking abuse from the general public.Re: Nurses leaving the NHS.
I have at least 6 friends who all went into nursing when we left grammar school. Every single one of them has stayed in nursing and a couple have retired and others are retiring soon.Re: Nurses leaving the NHS.
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Here in Canada the nurses are extremely well paid but the numbers are going down.Re: Nurses leaving the NHS.
A lot of nurses leaving are actually retiring. This is something that should be planned for years in advance and the NHS has failed to do that because theRe: Nurses leaving the NHS.
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