'I've been verbally abused.'
"I’ve been spat at, I’ve been verbally abused. I’ve been threatened that when I leave work that evening I will be stabbed as I get into my car.
"I have grown men, 6ft 4, towering over me throwing objects at me on a daily basis. I do not feel safe going to work.”Advertisement “At night-time from 2am onwards, we only have two doctors. Sometimes we could have up to 60, 70 patients waiting at that time with two doctors, it’s not feasible,” she said.She said that she no longer feels safe going to work because of how she has been treated recently.Advertisement“In the last 18 months we have had 30 nurses resign from our emergency department alone. We are on our knees when it comes to our staffing levels.
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