Frustrated nurses also in the UK...same issues...not being heard...and constant reform...BD
Britain's star nurse has quit her job with the National Health Service (NHS) only eight months after being named 'Nurse of the Year'. The 37 year old mother of two will leave nursing to take up a teaching job. Justine Whitaker says she has quit because of the pressure constant health reforms place on frontline nursing staff. Whitaker has called on the Health Secretary Alan Johnson, to stop paying lip service to nurses and "hear what we are saying". Ms Whitaker is a Macmillan specialist clinical nurse with 20 years experience in the treatment of lymphoedema, the swelling of the lymph glands, at East Lancashire Primary Care Trust.
She has also invented a pain relief device to help men after prostate surgery, the Whitaker compression pouch is a garment which helps relieve painful swelling suffered by some men with prostate cancer and is used worldwide.
She says she is sorry to be leaving nursing but the impact of the constant reforms to the health service is grossly misunderstood by the government.
Ms Whitaker says while the government says it has talked to thousands of nurses and doctors they do not hear what they are saying.
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