It indicated that one in four nurses in Northern Ireland were discouraged from raising concerns about patient care.

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However, only four doctors and one in five nurses actually did so.

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The NMC heard that failure to treat, discharge or admit patients within the government's four-hour target led to nurses at the hospital being shouted at and "made a spectacle" of.

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To help keep her mind active, the nurses bunked her in a four-person room with a procession of elderly women.

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One aimed to insure that nurses observe patients for pain at least once every four hours and provide timely pain medication.

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" He said the plans were drawn up during four months of talks with dozens of groups, including patient advocates, doctors, nurses, employers and "other interested groups.

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In one survey of almost 3, 000 nurses diagnosed with breast cancer, researchers discovered that women who had fewer than 10 close friends were four times more likely to die of the disease than women with 10 or more close friends.

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