Dead quiet
They’re overworked and underpaid but as if that’s not enough to be getting on with, the nurses of Great Britain are faced with some grisly, ghastly and downright gut-wrenching sights.
They also have their fair share of hilarious stories to boot. Here are a few of the best from the frontline of the NHS.
It’s not uncommon for colleagues to play tricks on students as Nurse M explains. "When I was a student I was told to go into a patient’s room to give them a bed bath. I did it, nervously, but they didn’t respond to any questions the whole way through. I was told afterwards they’d been dead for an hour."
