Damned if you don’t work, damned if you do
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Damned if you don’t work, damned if you do

Jane Bates Retired nurse

You’ve coughed continuously for the third night in a row, everything hurts and your sinuses are having a snot fest. What you need is to be tucked up in bed, but either you can’t stop thinking about the those you are letting down, or you feel guilt-tripped by management, so you turn up to that 12-hour shift anyway.

Nursing Standard. 39, 1, 15-15. doi: 10.7748/ns.39.1.15.s8

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