sorry to hear your stories. I feel SO lucky to be working in our facility that we get to take 30 minute breaks and lunch. Though Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays are considered heavy in our unit, still we manage to get it through. We have 16 chairs (2 are for hep B patients who usually show up often) and have around 1 charge nurse, and 10 RNs (no PCTs in my country). We might be having lots of nurses this time but we get to lose one or nurses in a month, we'll be experiencing the dillema too.