Life as a Nurse: ‘My Patients Go Through Hell’

May 19, 2014

(BBC) – Nurses are under more scrutiny than ever before. Following the Stafford Hospital scandal the profession has been forced to defend itself against accusations it has forgotten how to care. But what is life really like for those on the frontline? Everyone can have a bad day at work: unreasonable requests from a boss, perhaps a mountain of work that never seems to shrink. But for ward sister Louise Baxendale, a bad day means the death of a teenager.