[Margaret Pilkington]

I like to think that I led by example, and that my nursing team knew what was expected of them....and that was to give care.
Also, at that time there were still a lot of nurses around who trained under the old scheme...which was a bit like an apprenticeship.
Now many of those nurses have retired, so the current nurses have had a different kind of training......and sadly most of them come into nursing for the wrong reasons.
They come into nursing to pay the mortgage(and I am not saying that nurses should not get a reasonable wage) rather than to make a difference to peoples lives.

ALL nurses on the wards work unsocial hours.....it comes with the territory.......and my suggestion would be to those who don't like it.....leave and do something else.
Patients will always need to be looked after.