Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHS
Samantha Austen
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Comment on: Managers must look after nurses' mental wellbeing, says NICE
It is somewhat comforting but distressing to hear that others feel this way! I thought it was just me! I recently left my job as an NHS staff nurse after 5 years due to general unhappiness at work. After a stressful year in my personal life i assumed that anxiety and depression i felt was down to these reasons, but realised this year that it was my job that was causing me more stress and unhappiness than anything else. My friends and family could see it before i could, and they could not believe the way we were treated in the workplace - from petit memos from seniors and managers to a rediculous and stressful workload that the lack of staffing was not able to cope with. i became very disillusioned with a job that i once absolutely loved, and it has become nothing but a conveyer belt of patients and beurocracy. I had to make a decision for my health and sanity to get out while i could, and now work for nurse bank and agencies to see how different things are, until i find something that i really want to do. I'm afraid that i'm a bit wary of NHS nursing now, although i am sure everywhere has it's problems. It's just such a shame that our caring profession does not care for it's staff!
