If you want the mass evacuation of nurses from the NHS to continue then dont support a pay rise. Nurses in the main experience, coming in early, going home late, little to no breaks, ridiculous stress, verbal and physical abuse. Any error potentially disastrous.
There is nothing like the worry that any mistake you may have made has affected the wellbeing of another, by ommision or action. Throw into any busy day all of the above factors, ongoing and recurrently, and the likelihood of error increases significantly. Nursing is not a predictable environment, people suddenly deteriorate in any number of ways, if you're stretched to capacity you wont have the 'luxury' of being around any one of the number of patients you've been assigned to pick up on the early signs that this may be happening. Giving out medicines to a ward full of patients can take the best part of 2 hours or longer depending on how many interruptions there are and that's only if everything goes to plan. Phone calls, Drs rounds, falls, patients who have dementia, actively dying patients, dealing with other disciplines, organising discharges, etc etc etc etc etc and drug rounds happen 4 times a day. Where does basic nursing care come in this environment ? Nowhere.
Nurses have personal lives too and I dont want any nurse already exhausted who has to take extra work to survive looking after me. The mental toll of looking after patients is draining enough.