1 - Abuse
- from patients
- from other staff
Abuse is abuse, no matter who you get it from, or whatever the background, or how you try to make it ok in your own head, or however much you try to ignore it. Be it threatening behaviour and drug seeking by someone who isn't very nice, to an angry cancer patient still coming to terms with their diagnosis, or a power tripping member of staff.
It still hurts.
2 - Ethical issues
- isolated
- compounded by confidentiality
There is never a 'right' answer. All shades of grey. Never simple. Never straightforward. Whatever course of action you take is going to seriously impact on someone's life.
3 - Constantly being short-staffed, and thus having to work extra long hours, regularly, unpaid, adding to an already packed, stressful day.
It's exhausting. There is only so much a human can do. Mistakes could easily happen. And even if you raise concerns, asking for more help, you end up being told that people have dealt with it before you, so you should be perfectly capable of dealing with it too.
4 - Breaking bad news
No matter how carefully it's given, it's still bad news.
5 - Bland food in the canteen. hrmph.
