This is the reality of working as an A&E nurse today 👇
Millie, 27, joined the profession because she wanted to help people: “I felt that if I did medicine, became a GP, I wouldn’t be able to give patients the time I hoped nursing would allow me to.
“With every added hour, every new patient through the door, every delay, the pressure built. There were plenty of times when it felt unsafe.” “With every added hour, every new patient through the door, every delay, the pressure built. There were plenty of times when it felt unsafe.”Tensions grew among staff, too, with nursing teams often down by as much as one-third. Some 25,000 nurses left the profession in the UK last year, according to the RCN, and there are 47,000 unfilled registered nurse posts in England’s NHS alone.
In some of her worst moments, Millie remembers feeling helpless to improve things. She says: “There was one awful shift, at the peak of Covid, when we had one nurse on a break, leaving two of us with a man in his seventies who had a head injury. He suddenly went into cardiac arrest while we waited for a doctor. It was like a trauma scene, blood everywhere and just the two of us doing chest compressions for almost an hour til, eventually, he was pronounced dead.
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