Student nurses 'frustrated' at 'last-minute decision' to redeploy teaching nurses to help with Covid-19 surge
Clinical placements for most student nurses and midwives – due to start tomorrow – have been suspended.
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Clinical placements for most student nurses and midwives – due to start tomorrow – have been suspended.
The INMO has also suggested a partial reopening of schools to take the pressure of healthcare workers with school-aged children.
The INMO is also calling on the HSE to improve daily communications with staff.
The organisation said hospital overcrowding is “unacceptable at the best of times, but it is doubly so when dealing with a contagious virus”.
Stephen Donnelly said ministers will consider current Level 5 restrictions in light of the data.
The INMO said student nurses and midwives had “rightly given a cautious response” to the proposed reviews.
61 nurses contracted the virus in the most recent week for which figures are available.
The Solidarity-People Before Profit (PBP) motion was defeated by 77 votes to 72.
Nurses account for almost a third of all healthcare worker cases of Covid-19.
Phil Ni Sheaghdha says PPE has improved but greater supports are needed.
The INMO will appear at the Dáil’s health committee today.
The demands were made at the organisation’s annual conference.
Data from the UK suggests that BAME healthcare workers were more likely to die from Covid-19.
The INMO has warned that overcrowding and Covid-19 make for a ‘toxic combination’.
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The INMO said that it would be “inhumane” to not increase healthcare staff ahead of a second Covid-19 wave.
The claim was made by INMO General Secretary, Phil Ní Sheaghdha.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar this evening suggested that the figures provided by the INMO were wrong.
Operators said additional staff will be needed to manage the extra Covid-19 health and safety requirements.
The INMO wants Covid-19 to be classed as a personal injury under health and safety legislation.
‘A fire alarm went off and we sent four fire tenders, and people are saying now we should only have sent three,’ the secretary general said.
7,943 healthcare workers have tested positive for the virus so far.
In a letter, the HSE informed nursing interns that they would all be guaranteed a job.
The government announced that a childcare scheme for healthcare workers had to be scrapped.
The INMO pointed out that many of its members are lone parents or have partners who are also working on the frontline.
The move has been welcomed by the INMO.
According to the INMO, Ireland faces one of the highest rates of diagnosed healthcare worker infection in Europe.
From pregnancy to isolation, advice to staff has changed significantly since January.
The study was compiled before Covid-19 and calls for greater investment in nursing.
The union said that it hadn’t yet been consulted on the proposal.
Hundreds of student nurses are set to begin their unpaid work placements this month.
There have been a number of reports in recent days of healthcare workers at hospitals having their cars clamped while they were working overtime.
A representative of nurses in Ireland said that not cancelling St Patrick’s Day “puts too much strain on our public health service”.
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The Mater was the hospital with the highest number of patients on trolleys in Dublin yesterday morning, according to the INMO.
There were 92 patients waiting for a bed at University Hospital Limerick, alone.
The overcrowding has been made worse by flu season, according to the HSE.
The government has repeatedly said a recruitment freeze is not in operation.