Don't miss a thing by signing up to the MyOldham newsletter here In the canteen of the Royal Oldham Hospital, Dawn Lee sits down in her smart blue uniform.
It’s been 32 years since she began her career in the NHS, first starting out as an intensive care and A&E nurse in 1989.
To a patient, those two departments might seem like the most challenging wards in a hospital - places of intense stress and trauma.
But, aged just 24, Dawn, from Failsworth, didn’t mind. Rather than working in a less pressurised environment for her first job, she asked to be there and wouldn't have had it any other way.