Brilliant Heather!
A nurse from Lisburn is set to feature in a new ITV series that focuses on one of the busiest A&E departments in the UK.
" I started in Central Middlesex Hospital and then moved over to Northwick Park Hospital and I've been there almost 7 and a half years now. I wanted to work in A&E which is one of the reasons I moved to London because a lot of places will not take newly qualified nurses into A&E so that was one of my reasons for going to London, to get that experience."
"In A&E you never know what is going to come through the door, it could be anything. We get quite a lot of walk-in-trauma which I wasn't really expecting but anything can come through the door, which means you have to be on your game all the time, which I quite like. We work long shifts, we work 12.5 hours but it goes so quickly."
"I think I've seen three babies born over the years which is mad because we've got maternity right next door but some of those have been people who didn't know they were pregnant which just seems so mad to me, but your own body can betray you so much that you can compensate so well and that's what is so shocking," said Heather.
"It almost made us as a team in work a little bit closer because we were all in it together and I live on my own with the dog so especially during the pandemic with my mum and dad still over in Northern Ireland, I didn't really have a support bubble here. People in work became like my bubble and there are quite a few of us like that, so we all supported each other."
"It was quite cool to watch it back because you don't realise the impact you might have on other people, so it was quite nice to see that and see how people appreciate what you're doing because at the time, it's not always evident. It's such a fast-paced department so you might not see someone ever again after you've dealt with them.
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