QUOTE of the week goes to the community psychiatric nurse in the Co Down who recalled one shocking home visit in a Royal College of Nursing study on nurses working alone. She said: “I asked the client when his problems started, to which he replied ‘Earlier in the year when I killed my wife’.” Today, nurses have something to be more cheerful about – the Assembly Health Minister has announced a long-awaited 2.5% pay rise for them.
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