Because whether we're in a hospital or a doctor's office or community health center, nurses are often the first people we see when we walk through that door.

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Nurses and health advisers based at an NHS Direct office in Devon have been taking action over plans to replace the service with the new NHS 111 helpline.

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There were already 10, 000 more nurses working in the NHS than when we came to office, he said.

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Staff nurses Jane Wilkinson and Lucian Smith took Ms Kostova into the office after the incident and told her the behaviour was "unacceptable".

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When she took office, she was faced with a potential strike of nurses whose union was demanding huge pay increases.

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Many of these strategies depend on technologies that employ remote monitoring of patients so that doctors and nurses can track their progress without needing them to come to the office.

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This means reduced incentives for doctors to cover weekend calls, see patients in the ER, squeeze in an office visit, or take phone calls rather than turfing them to nurses.

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Yet in many locations, registered nurses must divide their time between school buildings that are miles apart, talking to one office while in another, figuring out which crisis is the most serious.

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Shadow Scotland Office minister William Bain claimed the government would rather impose additional tax rises on "nurses, teachers and catering staff", than tax bankers' bonuses.

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The minister said that since she came to office she had put in place extra intensive care and high dependency unit beds as well as additional nurses.

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