When dozens of local nurses staged a protest out the front of Dubbo MP Dugald Saunders’ office during last week’s strike action, there was some brutal honesty on display.
“I was orientated to the ‘crying room’ on my very first shift, as the level of stress we experience due to the workload is ‘expected’," one nurse said.
Like many nurses, she didn’t want to be named for fear of r...