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Diary of an ED: ‘Most shifts feel like working in a battlefield’
Clinical senior sister Christina Harrison and charge nurse Matthew Osborne discuss the daily pressures and challenges they face working in emergency departments
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Posted 07 March 2023 - 11:28
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