There I said it.Īs nurse Justin Walford puts it: ‘There is the fear – fear we will become infected or we will infect our families that our colleagues will become sick or the stories we hear from other countries will become our stories.’ Even more so I’m petrified to have my husband or children cuddle me in fear I’m infecting them. at the minute I hate being a nurse, I hate the feeling of being unsafe/exposed at work. But nurses report for work in the most challenging of circumstances anyway, because that is the job. Long hours caring for patients, fears about contracting the virus, separation from loved ones, and redeployment – the pressure on nurses has been unrelenting since March last year.Īnd, of course, nursing staff have died. The survey, in November 2020, had 1,650 nurse participants. Month after month of working in the high-stakes environment of COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the mental health and well-being of nurses.Įight out of ten nurses responding to a Nursing Standard survey told us their mental health had been affected by the pandemic, while six in ten said their physical health was suffering.
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