Nurses need a little nurturing | Letters

No wonder they are leaving the profession: nurses don’t expect to be rich, they just want to feel valuedTorsten Bell is correct in his analysis of the exodus of nurses from the profession (“When nursing staff head for the door, senior doctors are right behind”, Comment). As a now retired nurse of more than 40 years’ experience, I can speak with some authority about why retention is so poor. Nurses never expect huge salaries or they wouldn’t have entered the professi