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Nurses allowed water bottles on ward during heatwave

The Royal College of Nursing has called for nurses to be allowed water bottles on ward during the current heatwave.
Written on 7/30/18

The Royal College of Nursing has called on trusts to allow nurses to take water bottles onto the wards during the current heatwave, in order to avoid dehydration.

The college said that some hospitals were getting so hot that patients and relatives are passing out and vomiting according to worried nurses.

Read the full article on the Nursing Times website