Nurses and midwives will walk off the job and rally outside Parliament House TOMORROW, Tuesday 15 February, demanding the NSW Premier resolve the staffing crisis in public hospitals. Thousands of NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) members will take part in over 20 rallies tomorrow, as part of the statewide strike to highlight the government’s […]
Thousands of nurses and midwives from more than 150 public hospitals and health services will strike statewide next Tuesday 15 February, over the NSW government’s failure to introduce nurse-to-patient ratios on every shift. Over the past week, 99 per cent of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) branches who voted were in favour of […]
Burnt out and dejected, a group of registered nurses, enrolled nurses and assistants in nursing from residential aged care sites across NSW are travelling to Canberra, desperate to have their voices heard when federal parliament resumes tomorrow. Armed with first-hand accounts of chronic workforce shortages, poor access to booster vaccines, and ongoing battles over supplies […]
Nurses and midwives at Tamworth Base Hospital are frustrated their calls for safe staffing levels in their emergency department (ED) continue to go unanswered as the state’s health system is put under immense pressure from the growing Omicron outbreak. In late December an open letter from staff was sent to the Hunter New England Local […]
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) is calling on Scott Morrison to increase resources in the aged care sector as a matter of urgency as aged care residents and staff are being placed at significant risk due to a severe lack of preparation by the sector and federal government. NSWNMA Acting General Secretary, Shaye […]
As the state prepares to welcome in the New Year, nurses and midwives have been copping increased levels of abuse inside hospitals as they struggle to deliver care with massive staffing shortages. A lack of available nurses at one major Sydney hospital has prompted calls for patients to be discharged as soon as possible, and […]
For this podcast, Shaye speaks with Mark Aitken, a Registered Nurse and the Stakeholder Engagement Manager of Nurse and Midwife Support (NMS). NMS is 24/7 national support service for nurses and midwives providing access to confidential advice and referral. Nurse & Midwife Support is funded by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and run […]
With grave fears for patient safety, senior nurse managers across several health facilities in Western NSW will take the unprecedented step of stop work action for two hours TOMORROW (Tuesday), sounding an alarm about the dire state of rural and regional health. Unable to fill rising nurse vacancies and critical gaps in current rosters, members […]
New data shows emergency department (ED) clinicians have continued to persevere through demanding circumstances inside the state’s public hospitals, after facing one of the busiest quarters for life-threatening ‘Emergency’ (triage category 2) presentations on record. The latest Bureau of Health Information (BHI) report has revealed more category 2 patients arrived at EDs, and also waited […]
The 1st of December marked World AIDS Day, a time for us to reflect upon the other pandemic that affects so any people in Australia, and to continue to raise awareness of the issues surrounding HIV/AIDS. Today we’re fortunate to be joined by Timmy Lockwood, who is a Clinical Nurse Consultant at the Centre for […]
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