The Nurse

100 words Drabble

The nurse glanced at the ward clock; her shift should have finished over an hour ago. Yet there was no way she could leave.

She knew the staff were all exhausted, the outbreak of measles had caused havoc. if only people would just do the right thing and get their kids immunised.

She finished monitoring the little girl’s spiking temperature whilst speaking comforting words with her mother watching on helplessly, forced to listen to her child coughing until she vomited.

The tired nurse thought about her own children and how she had missed kissing them goodnight. For yet another night.