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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.
Nursing in corridors: An exhausted and dispirited nurse rubs her eye

NHS nurses are having to provide care in inappropriate places. How much longer can staff cope, what is the impact on staff and on patient dignity and safety and is this the new normal?

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