Fern Osborne found herself hoping for a positive lateral flow test so she did not have to work.
Ms Osborne was working at Glangwili General Hospital in November when she decided she would rather "take the risk" of relying on agency work - which means no sick pay, pension contribution and or guaranteed work - rather than stay in her position as a staff nurse, because the job was having a toll on her mental and physical well-being.
She added: "During the first wave I felt like a fraud because I think we had one patient on ITU the whole time, but when the second wave hit it was non-stop. Helen Whyley, Royal College of Nursing Wales director, said NHS nurses, particularly in senior roles, are "often demoralised or even traumatised by working in suboptimal or unsafe conditions for which they feel responsible while lacking the necessary authority to bring about change".
She said if a dependency on agencies continues, it risks health boards no longer directly employ staff to provide patient care and instead move all nursing care being outsourced."If NHS Wales is to retain its own nursing staff, it needs to modernise its employment procedures to allow nurses more control over when they work."
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