'It is a daily occurrence and I do not feel safe going to work,' she said.
Nurses and midwives have said that they do not feel "safe" in work, with one nurse recalling how she was verbally abused, spat at and threatened with a stabbing during her shift.
"I have been threatened that when I leave work that evening, I will be stabbed as I get into my car. I have had a grown man six foot four towering over me throwing objects at me."It is a daily occurrence and I do not feel safe going to work," she said. Both patients and parents become aggressive when they see there are only two doctors working. They become tired and the nurse usually suffers "the backlash."Ms Chambers noted that staff are now leaving in their droves and that in the last 18 months, 30 nurses have resigned from their emergency department.
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