I have at last finished my horrendous 10 day stint declaring never again. I am shattered but looking forward to 2 much needed days off.
It leaves me wondering how people coped a 100 years ago working from dawn to dusk and only having 1 day off a fortnight? As Probationer Ethel Bennet commented in Casualty 1906 "For 13 days you shall labour and then have one days rest" In a later edition I think Casualty 1909 a potential probationer is interviewed and is informed that a nurses day commences at 5.30am and does not end till 10pm. How did they do it? That one day of rest must surely of been spent in bed?
They surely must have had something in thier diet in them days that we lack eh!!
ReplyDeleteThat's my excuse ;-) x x x