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.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar this evening suggested that the figures provided by the INMO were wrong.
The INMO pointed out that many of its members are lone parents or have partners who are also working on the frontline.
Hundreds of student nurses are set to begin their unpaid work placements this month.
Of the 279 assaults, 249 were on nurses and midwives.
Members of the INMO voted 62% in favour of accepting the proposals.
About 37,000 INMO members are engaging in strike action over pay and staffing levels.
The strike is set to enter its third week as supporters gather at the Garden of Remembrance this afternoon.
Three more strikes are due to take place next Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday.
Meanwhile, the HSE has said that 50,000 patients will be affected this week.
Midwives didn’t pick the job for the money, but they want their skills to get the same recognition as other healthcare professionals, Maeve Gaynor writes.
Nurses are set to go on strike this month and next in a dispute over pay and conditions.
They often have to work in very difficult circumstances.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation have announced a 24-hour strike for 30 January.
Further strike days will follow in February if the dispute goes unresolved, the INMO says.
“The last thing the health service needs is a strike,” Health Minister Simon Harris said yesterday.
Doctors, nurses, midwives and others will be working across the country today and throughout the week.
The INMO is set to announce dates for the 24-hour stoppages in the new year.
The INMO said today that 95% of of its members had voted in favour of strike action.
If the ballot is passed, they will start with a 24-hour work stoppage and escalate their action the following week.
The INMO said “the public sector simply isn’t offering the going rate for the job”.
The report said that there were issues around recruiting consultants with certain specialities in specific areas.
At a recent conference, representatives from the maternity sector spoke about how negative media coverage affects morale.
Staffing and retention are two key issues that nearly led to industrial action in the nursing sector earlier this year.
Health Minister Simon Harris has said that the measures offer nurses and midwives “enhanced opportunities to advance their careers”.
Industrial action is looming in the new year as nurses claim they are understaffed and overworked.
They have voted in favour of action up to and including the complete withdrawal of labour.
Bodies representing thousands of workers are calling for talks following the offer made to gardaí.
About 8,000 women in Ireland develop gestational diabetes every year.
A new report also found trainees who gained their medical qualification outside Ireland rated learning environments significantly more highly.
The INMO says Cork University Hospital continues to operate at almost full capacity.
It is seeking to attract up to 500 people and it is hoped it will encourage Irish nurses working abroad to come home.
Maternity staff are being asked to deal with far, far more births than they can safely handle in hospitals up and down the country.
The Health Minister said he is monitoring the situation but can’t step in.
The Nurses and Midwifery Board of Ireland denied it has been ‘threatening’ members.
The INMO said it is concerned about hospitals coping with the winter demand.
INMO has said its members are “extremely worried at what lies ahead for the winter months”.
The strike follows a rejection by the government of an across-the-board pay rise for workers.
The centre will recreate real life clinical scenarios using simulation models.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has called on the HSE to immediately recruit more staff at MRHM.