Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Nurses’ value is not measured in money, but this does not give the government licence to cut their bursaries.
I would not be where I am today without the compassion, dedication and guidance of nurses. I write this not as a patient, but a junior doctor.
For every heart-wrenching story I have to tell about my own experiences in hospital, there was a nurse stood right beside me. There was a nurse running with me to a cardiac arrest, who despaired with me as we alternated chest compressions to time. There was a nurse next to me who ran to fetch blood products needed to keep someone alive as they bled out because the porters would not have made it in time.
Nurses epitomise the goodwill that the NHS is run on. They laugh and cry with their patients. They will empty bed pans with one hand while fluffing pillows and blankets with the other. They will make their patients a cup of tea with one hand while dispensing life-saving medication with the other.
http://www.theguardian.com/healthca...nior-doctor-support-nhs-nurses-cuts-bursaries
I would not be where I am today without the compassion, dedication and guidance of nurses. I write this not as a patient, but a junior doctor.
For every heart-wrenching story I have to tell about my own experiences in hospital, there was a nurse stood right beside me. There was a nurse running with me to a cardiac arrest, who despaired with me as we alternated chest compressions to time. There was a nurse next to me who ran to fetch blood products needed to keep someone alive as they bled out because the porters would not have made it in time.
Nurses epitomise the goodwill that the NHS is run on. They laugh and cry with their patients. They will empty bed pans with one hand while fluffing pillows and blankets with the other. They will make their patients a cup of tea with one hand while dispensing life-saving medication with the other.
http://www.theguardian.com/healthca...nior-doctor-support-nhs-nurses-cuts-bursaries
