Proving nurses work.
Nearly everyone knows someone, a relative or friend who has been hit by unemployment and with three million people currently out of work it's hardly surprising. Nurses are no more immune from the recession than any other public sector staff. The days when a nursing qualification meant a job for life have long since past. The prospect of unemployment among nurses may have won public sympathy and a media outcry many years ago, now they are just another group of workers facing the inevitability of the dole queue. Or are they?