Photo / Michael Cunninghamby Jodi Bryant and Peter de GraafJill Mortimer has nurses approach her in tears and, often, she just wants to cry with them. Mortimer was speaking at yesterday's nursing strike in Whangārei. Photo / Michael CunninghamThe eight-hour nurses' strike affected all public hospitals and DHB facilities around New Zealand and involved nurses, midwives and hospital assistants. We get blamed for everything so patients attack us and we're afraid for the patients and what it's doing to us. We try our hardest but I feel like I'm not doing the nursing job I want to do.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 09, 2021 17:03 UTC