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Virtually no nurses go into the profession being uncaring. What happens is that the system grinds them down - all the more so now with patients being more acutely unwell; job cuts on wards; and great inefficient support and bureaucracy. What you then get is classic burnout (hopeless, helpless, then ultimately heartless). We need to therefore (just like troops in fighting situations) rotate nurses out of " the front line" from time to time so that they are both refreshed, and they rediscover their humanity and their passion for caring..