I feel that, to a great extent, it is caused by modern society. We oldies were able to play outside, even in the street, without supervision. Now parents have to confine their children to "keep them safe." We learned the hard way to toughen up at an early age and develop an "attitude" that now stands us in good stead. If children are overly protected, because their parents quite rightly care for them, they fail to catch mild doses of the "disease" which then innoculates them. It's not just in the nursing profession but, of course, such professions are more testing of resilience.

I think we are living in interesting times (as the chinese curse goes) There is far more pressure than there used to be because of the instability of our government not having enough of a mandate to do anything much; plus the Brexit saga and the Atos scene ; lot of fear of not being able to cope very well with no real wage increases zero hours contracts -money fear - fear for people living in high rise flats with cladding fear for people on the streets - Fear is a real downer for us all. Yes I think this much fear would make a lot of us delicate.

No coping mechanisms any more. Children went through the "noone must fail" education system so expect everything to be perfect all the time. As my mother still says "you'd better just get on with it - we had to".

When I look at group if youngsters today, I get the feeling we are bringing up a bunch of wimps. why should nursing be any different ?