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Christina Patterson: Care to be a Nurse?

Columnist Christina Patterson says we should stop making excuses for bad nursing, recalling her own experiences and the reaction she received after she wrote about them.

Columnist Christina Patterson discusses her own experiences of terrible nursing care.

She asks why we keep making excuses for bad nursing when good care is so important - and maintains that whatever the pressures on them, nurses always have a choice about how they behave.

Producer: Giles Edwards.

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Fri 15 Jul 2011 17:15

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