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Principles for a supportive workplace
Abstract
The following quotations were taken from a Royal College of Nursing (RCN) (2025) report, and discussed by Devereux (2025), into the impact on patients and staff of the practice of nursing patients in corridors during the current winter crisis. A senior nursing support worker said:
‘When you leave, you take that home with you – everything you didn't do [or] you did do – and that sticks with you and it makes a hole in your soul.’
‘Every year we say it can't get worse than this, and then the next year, lo and behold, it wipes us out.’
The following quotations were taken from a Royal College of Nursing (RCN) (2025) report, and discussed by Devereux (2025), into the impact on patients and staff of the practice of nursing patients in corridors during the current winter crisis. A senior nursing support worker said:
‘When you leave, you take that home with you – everything you didn't do [or] you did do – and that sticks with you and it makes a hole in your soul.’
‘Every year we say it can't get worse than this, and then the next year, lo and behold, it wipes us out.’
Marcomini et al (2021) described a study that found that health professionals directly involved in diagnosing, treating and caring for patients with COVID-19 are at risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder. Concerningly, Devereux (2025) cited Nicola Ranger, Chief Executive of the RCN, as having:
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