'I was in nurse mode - I don't think you ever shut that off': Hero off-duty medic who saved stabbed builder by giving him CPR in the street says she was just doing what she'd have done on the wards

Abigail Bamber (pictured, middle), 26, was driving back from a day out shopping in Bristol city centre with a friend when she saw a man stumbling across the road.

The staff nurse - who was enjoying a day off for her 26th birthday, which she had celebrated just two days earlier - got her friend to pull over as the man collapsed to the ground.

After discovering he wasn't breathing, she immediately began CPR (left and bottom right) before handing over to the paramedics when they arrived.

Video footage recorded by a passer-by shows her pounding on the dying man's chest, desperately trying to keep him alive as his life ebbed away.

Her selfless actions paid off - as blood-soaked Edmund Sinanaj (top right), 41, started breathing again and survived as a direct result of her actions.

But Abigail, a nurse on a surgical ward at Bristol's Southmead Hospital, dismissed suggestions she was a hero - insisting she 'just went into nurse mode'.

Speaking from the ward where she works today, she said: 'I think most nurses go into nursing because it is a vocation - not a job

  source:dailymail