• How a teenager in crisis made me question my job in Britain’s broken health system | Anonymous

    How a teenager in crisis made me question my job in Britain’s broken health system | Anonymous
    A harrowing weekend for the patient and nurses involved could have been avoided had a specialist inpatient bed been freeThe writer is a paediatric nurse at a hospital in south-east EnglandI am a nurse; my job is to help people. But I’m helpless.I work on a children’s ward in the south-east of England. I have been raising serious and significant concerns since the middle of last year, and I recently witnessed one of the most distressing situations in my 25-year career. I don’t s

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