ABSTRACT

This chapter provides details on a piece of writing received anonymously by the author. The writing gave an account of a workplace event, or series of events, which the writer saw as enacting an injustice with her as its central victim. It included photocopies of an escalating series of letters of complaint addressed to a matron in a particular national health service provider. Looking at the text of the writing, the author could see that some terrible trauma was described. The chapter presents a short account of the trauma to evoke a nurse’s struggle to maintain integrity in the face of adversity that seems to span many years.