She said not enough is being done to support over-worked and underpaid health care professionals
Belfast woman Rachel slammed the NHS saying not enough is being done to support over-worked and underpaid health care professionals.
She explained: "After working as an NHS nurse for a while I found myself taking a job in a non clinical role in order to improve my work life balance and our family income. I was devastated to leave clinical practice as coronary care were my nursing family but I had to put my family first. “My daughter moved back with her father as it was convenient for school and she would be with her friends and I decided to bank as a staff nurse until I could apply to be a real nurse again. Little did I know I that after bottling this stress up for so long my real troubles were only beginning.”
Rachel continued: "Eventually I was admitted to a home treatment house which was a six bedded unit run by the trust. The day I arrived I was shocked to see other health professionals there as patients but ultimately the staff here saved my life, they were absolute angels. "The clinical role was worse for me as you're a lone worker, you don't have a team around you, it's very lonely and you're on your own day in day out and you're doing your paperwork by yourself, you're the only person who has seen the patient and can't get advice from fellow colleagues like you can on a ward, it's just very solitary.
"I was too ill to apply for benefits at the time so for four months from October to February I wasn't receiving anything at all even though a patient advocate and occupational therapist tried to help me during that time I was just looking straight through them as I couldn't even think about it. Whilst help is available, Rachel said she would love to see a dedicated drop-in centre at each hospital to support staff with their mental health without having to wait for an appointment.
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