What irritates you most about nursing? The 5 most common gripes

We asked nurses to share their daily frustrations – find out what they said about hierarchies, IT issues, lack of food on shift and protected time for training

Nurses have revealed the many small irritations they encounter in their day-to-day working lives that threaten to knock a shift out of alignment.

From terrible IT systems to a lack of hot food provision, nurses across the UK told Nursing Standard about their biggest gripes about their jobs.

The issue of nursing staff being treated differently to other healthcare workers is a major bugbear, nurses’ responses to our query on social media show.

Commenting on Twitter, @jonno108 says: ‘Never being treated like professionals and