Today, on the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, it’s Nurses’ Day – the annual opportunity for the public, and nurses themselves, to take a few moments to celebrate the profound good that nursing does.
I have just finished yet another week working in a short-staffed team. With four nurses long-term sick, three on sickness leave, one on annual leave and two unfilled posts, our team of 14 nurses finds itself reduced to just four.