According to a report, the more ill children in the United Kingdom are being treated in the intensive care units, which are now struggling with some serious shortages of the specialist nurses that had been needed for looking after the sick children.
The shortages of the nurses in the 30 paediatric intensive care units (PICU) of the United Kingdom have been so much serious that, the assistants of healthcare have been covering the work of the nurses in an attempt for ensuring that, the levels of the staffing in the units are maintained.
According to the report, only one of the PICUs based in the James Cook University hospital in the region of Middlesbrough had been found to have enough number of the specialists nurses for guaranteeing the standards of the cars, which is expected, and around 15,000 children per year, are being cared for in the paediatric ICUs in the United Kingdom.
Patricia Marquis, director at the Royal College of Nursing England said that, the parents are going to find this very alarming, and most of the people are not going to believe that, only one paediatric ICU across the whole country is having enough staff for the proper functioning, but this has been the bitter reality of the crisis of the workers in the country, and the important roles in the teams of specialist nursing have been lying vacant for years in the United Kingdom.
