'Nurse by nurse, day by day, we are coming undone'

Nurses were already exhausted, disempowered, and demoralised before Covid arrived. It's time to stop adapting and demand change
'Nurse by nurse, day by day, we are coming undone'

Nurses are drowning. People are waving kindly from the shore because they don’t understand. They think we are still waving too.

The pandemic has laid us low. Nurse by nurse, day by day, we are coming undone. Not because we are not resilient but for the exact opposite reason.

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