Nurses let Premier know their feelings

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   kerri morgan February 1, 2012

   I trained in Victoria in the early 80’s. The points that Ansje states have already happened here in QLD, having experienced exactly this situation as the only RN on the shift with 14 patients, expected to attend to emergencies, with only a PCA. The result? 7 of us resigned. Why? Because it was too bloody dangerous and guess whose job is on the line if something goes wrong? BUT wait there’s more, turn up to a shift, the DON does not want to pay for midwife to come in so let’s use the RN, but don’t worry the DON’s on call, somewhere?….Don’t let Victoria go backwards like QLD has and has been for last 20yrs. Victoria had a good reputation and highly trained nurses…One day Mr Baillieu you may end up a patient, god help you!….)

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   Ansje Harris January 30, 2012

   Thank you to the author of the article concerning the current state of the nurses EBA negotiations. We are made to fight for our conditions and a pay rise every 4 yrs. This time is one of the hardest , as this Govt has a secret agenda to cut $100 mill from the public sector budget. One way to do this is to reduce the number of qualified nurses and replace them with unqualified staff with 6 weeks training. These untrained staff will make up part of the ratios, eg 1RN and PCA to 8-10 patients. They say we have to increase productivity. This is quite hard to do when we deal with sick and vulnerable patients. The best laid work plans can fall apart with a single emergency situation, eg cardiac arrest, taking more time away from daily clinical care and thus making more work and delaying the required clinical treatments. We are lucky in Vic. to have an excellent health service. Please Mr. Baillieu don’t destroy it . Respect the nurses and the work they do and meet us at the negotiating table.

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