Corridor nursing: is your role changing because of the crisis?

NHS nurses describe the appalling impact of increasingly having to provide inadequate care in inappropriate places. Responding to an RCN survey on the pressures on the healthcare system, many shared their experiences and how caring for patients in a range of inappropriate locations, including car parks and toilets, is compromising patients’ dignity, safety and confidentiality– and affecting the mental health and well-being of nurses themselves. Staff describe how their roles have changed, highlighting avoidable deaths and the number of colleagues considering leaving nursing.