Claim: A quarter of nurses need a second job.
Fact-check: Are nurses taking a second job to survive? - Full Fact
Verdict: 23% of respondents to a survey of royal college of nursing members said they had taken an "additional paid job", such as agency nursing, to help pay everyday bills and living expenses. we don't know how representative this is of all nurses and this is based on a low response rate .
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Amy Sippitt
Date published: 2017-11-17T00:00:00