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Clinical Education – but I don’t have time…

The Nurse Break

Literature supports that barriers to clinical education result from time pressures, competing work demands, the unpredictable nature of the clinical environment and under-resourcing (Spencer, 2003; Ramani & Leinster, 2008). I can still remember witnessing my first resuscitation as a student nurse. Ramani, S & Leinster, S.

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Firestorm

The Nurse Break

On Saturday 18th January 2003 a freak and devastating firestorm tore through my city. Peeking out of the small window in the resuscitation room, it seemed the world had been dipped in a bucket of hell. They were rushed into the resuscitation room where the trauma team pounced on them. Republished article of The Nurse Path.

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