A nurse who was severely injured and developed PTSD after being assaulted by a patient has joined the nurses' strike to demand better pay and support for her colleagues, who also put their wellbeing at risk every day. Caroline Gibbs, 46, had to move to a completely different job and hasn't been able to work on a ward or see her old colleagues since the incident in 2016 and says other nurses shouldn't have to go through the same.
Nurses are walking out in a row over pay in Wales for the first time in history, with a second strike day planned for December 20. Nurses from all but one of Wales' health boards have joined the strike, with picket lines all across the Wales, England and Northern Ireland.
On the picket line outside University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, Ms Gibbs told WalesOnline: "I was seriously assaulted by a patient who basically pulled me so hard it damaged all the muscles in my spine. I nearly lost my job through it.
