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Nurse leader: Nurses spend their lives caring for others, so pay them what they’re worth

With mounting nursing shortages, plummeting retention levels and the scrapping of student bursaries, a perfect storm is brewing - and it is high time the government started taking care of nursing staff, says RCN chief executive Janet Davies
Posted 24 October 2016 - 11:54
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