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An embattled NHS nurse has written a damning public letter on her hospital noticeboard saying their stress of A&E is worse than she had "serving in the Iraq war."
The sister - who has worked in A&E for 14 years - gave a brutal account of her daily working life struggling to cope in a letter read out to senior managers at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
The senior nurse served for six months on the front lines in a field hospital during the 2003 invasion of Iraq - and said NHS staff were "facing higher levels of stress than we ever did in that war zone".
In her blow-by-blow account of the Sunday night shift at the busiest emergency unit in Wales she said it was far worse than treating gunshot wounds, explosives injuries and wounded children in Iraq.
She said: "Our 10-bay resuscitation unit [in Iraq] was full most days of multiple traumas, gunshot wounds, explosive device injuries, children shot and damaged by warfare.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs...dE-is-worse-than-serving-in-the-Iraq-war.html
The sister - who has worked in A&E for 14 years - gave a brutal account of her daily working life struggling to cope in a letter read out to senior managers at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
The senior nurse served for six months on the front lines in a field hospital during the 2003 invasion of Iraq - and said NHS staff were "facing higher levels of stress than we ever did in that war zone".
In her blow-by-blow account of the Sunday night shift at the busiest emergency unit in Wales she said it was far worse than treating gunshot wounds, explosives injuries and wounded children in Iraq.
She said: "Our 10-bay resuscitation unit [in Iraq] was full most days of multiple traumas, gunshot wounds, explosive device injuries, children shot and damaged by warfare.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs...dE-is-worse-than-serving-in-the-Iraq-war.html