NHS and understaffed

[Itsmeagainandagain]

Aibu as a member of staff working within NHS to be fizzing from the ears at the lack of staff.
Another shift another hellish day with not enough staff to help us cope with a heavy ward. 2 staff nurses and 1 HAC for 20 people in various stages of pain and dementia and at least 10 fall risks. What I am absolutely raging mad about is there are nurses and HCAs walking in and out our ward with clipboards to see if we have the correct staffing levels, here's the rant, these clowns should put down the clipboards, roll up the sleeves and get their arses on the wards to do the jobs they were trained to do. It's patronising to nurses and HCAs who are on their knees begging for extra staff and these halfwits are strolling about as if on holiday.

AIBU to be mad, I'm sore all over and had not one break today. My urine was near enough brown because I held in a pee for 6 hours because I couldn't excuse myself to go to the toilet.

When is enough? Do our voices not matter in the workplace we are employed? How do we look after patients when there is 3 people looking after them.

@EverdeRose
Because we have a duty of care to our patients. How many people would be harmed or die if all nurses went on strike. We genuinely really care about our patients and the idea of doing anything which may put them at danger is against everything we do.
But by battling on understaffed patients are at risk daily.

The clipboard people you describe are a direct response to bodies like CQC who demand an action to be carried out. There is no choice in the matter.
You don't get any extra budget or other resources for doing whatever they demand so guess who's going to be given those tasks as part of their job.
The NHS is sadly seen as a massive cash cow for claims. So much time is having to be spent evidencing the smallest thing now.
When someone has a day off you have to have a return to work meeting. Even if it's one day, you know what it's for and it's not a problem. This has to be in private ( because we respect each other and of course there's acres of empty rooms to use - not) so if you manage a large or multiple teams you can spend all day at times having a meeting with different people to see how they are after having a cold and if the trust can do anything else to support their return. Managers hate these pointless meetings. They know their staff. Whilst spending time doing these things the manager knows it's taking them away from looking after the ward and supporting their staff.
Then we have mandatory training. There used to be core subjects, fire, manual handling etc. now there are mandatory courses on everything under the sun. Completing this takes away thousands of hours from direct patient care, again no choice in the matter, you have to do it.
I used to be scared of filling in incident forms but I do one every time now when there is a problem. It's the only way trust management boards will hear what's going on at shop floor level.