Our podcast discusses the movie Late Shift, which highlights the universal challenges faced by nurses struggling with heavy workloads

Stretched almost to breaking point by the demands of patients and colleagues

Nurses’ intolerable workloads are under the spotlight in this episode of the Nursing Standard podcast, with a review of a new film about nursing.

The Late Shift movie by writer-director Petra Volpe has brought the profession’s challenges to cinema screens across the UK and content editor Alistair Mason and CPD editor Nick Lipley discuss whether it hits the mark.

The podcast also discusses the latest nursing news, including a promise that all newly registered nurses will get a guaranteed job at the end of their studies and new figures showing violence levelled against emergency nurses is getting worse.

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