Sue Riches explains how 20 years’ nursing experience stands her in good stead for a new career
I always wanted to be a nurse, never imagining that I would do anything else. I loved helping patients recover and relished the close relationships with them. But as I got older, I found the long hours, shifts and emotional and physical stresses of the job difficult to cope with. So after ten years working for the NHS, I needed a change and I moved to an independent nursing recruitment agency.
Nursing Standard. 20, 23, 70-71. doi: 10.7748/ns.20.23.70.s60
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