A senior nurse at the Royal Preston Hospital said the strikes were about 'much more than just pay'
A senior nurse at the Royal Preston Hospital says that staffing levels in the NHS are making life “unbearable” for her and her colleagues – and leaving them unable to give patients the care that they deserve.
“For me, it’s about safe staffing and to get safe staffing you need to encourage people to come in with better pay and better working conditions – and encourage them to want to stay. At the minute, we’re haemorrhaging staff – it’s unbearable on the wards and in A&E, [because] we’re working on such poor staffing numbers. We have a transient workforce [of agency staff] who support those numbers, but they move on – they’re often only there for a shift.
Lynn says that the worry felt before a shift is often replaced with regret after the working day is over. “You go home and feel like you’ve done a very poor job and you get upset and frustrated, because all you want to do is go to work and deliver the care that you know the patients need. “I’m coming to the end of my career, but I care about the future of nursing – it is the best job in the world, it’s such a privilege and I want the nurses of the future to be able to enjoy their careers and feel valued and respected for the work they do and the responsibility they take on. They’re dealing with people at some of the most vulnerable moments in their lives,” says Gillian, who has been an A&E sister for the past two decades.
“You feel terrible for them every day dragging themselves in and doing their best when it’s just never enough.”
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