Feel good factor and good old days of nursing way back when

Forgive my absence for the past few weeks I have been busy charging my batteries ready for September's workload!! I find the blue sky of summer and radiant sunshine just the ticket to give me the feel good factor, so off to Portugal I went only for a week. I stayed with a friend who I started my nurse training with way back in 1974!! We always reminisce about the good old days of nursing and caring for the sick, for which we always feel was of a high standard. We both spent time working in the USA after qualifying and we talked about how shocking it was to experience USA health care compared to NHS. The impact of money and peoples ability to pay for health care was a huge culture shock, one that we could not understand or agree with. Imagine a diagnosis such as cancer and the drain on your resources as you try to cope and receive treatment..... something that many of us in the UK have no comprehension of - thank goodness. So it got me thinking how much easier life can be with the support of the NHS and the great people who work in it!!!