# nurses - Thursday 17 January, 2019
Nurses are set to go on strike this month and next in a dispute over pay and conditions.
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# nurses - Saturday 12 January, 2019
They often have to work in very difficult circumstances.
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The 24-hour strike on 30 January was announced earlier this week.
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# nurses - Thursday 10 January, 2019
They join members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation who are also due to go on strike.
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# nurses - Wednesday 9 January, 2019
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation have announced a 24-hour strike for 30 January.
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# nurses - Tuesday 8 January, 2019
Further strike days will follow in February if the dispute goes unresolved, the INMO says.
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“The last thing the health service needs is a strike,” Health Minister Simon Harris said yesterday.
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# nurses - Tuesday 25 December, 2018
Doctors, nurses, midwives and others will be working across the country today and throughout the week.
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# nurses - Wednesday 19 December, 2018
The INMO is set to announce dates for the 24-hour stoppages in the new year.
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# nurses - Tuesday 18 December, 2018
The INMO said today that 95% of of its members had voted in favour of strike action.
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# nurses - Saturday 15 December, 2018
Figures from the HSE show how frequently nursing staff are assaulted.
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# nurses - Friday 16 November, 2018
Our healthcare system in Ireland needs our nurses more than ever but measuring their performance has not been a priority, says former INMO General Secretary Liam Doran.
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# nurses - Wednesday 7 November, 2018
The Taoiseach said he didn’t understand why the comments were deemed controversial, as services must attempt to meet demand.
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# nurses - Tuesday 6 November, 2018
If the ballot is passed, they will start with a 24-hour work stoppage and escalate their action the following week.
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# nurses - Saturday 27 October, 2018
The INMO said “the public sector simply isn’t offering the going rate for the job”.
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# nurses - Tuesday 4 September, 2018
The report said that there were issues around recruiting consultants with certain specialities in specific areas.
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# nurses - Tuesday 26 June, 2018
Every day, the HSE spends over €800,000 on agency staff.
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Assaults on nursing staff made up the vast majority of these, accounting for 70% with 6,964 assaults.
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# nurses - Thursday 29 March, 2018
Today there were 485 patients on trolleys with 338 in emergency departments and a further 147 on wards.
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# nurses - Tuesday 16 January, 2018
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation said that the issue is a serious one for hospitals.
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# nurses - Tuesday 9 January, 2018
Just one in three nurses have received the vaccination.
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The HSE ran a campaign over the last few months to encourage healthcare workers to get the vaccine.
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# nurses - Monday 11 December, 2017
The results of the first ever National Patient Experience Survey show that long waiting times continue to be a problem in Irish hospitals.
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# nurses - Sunday 29 October, 2017
If the Health Minister plans to keep his commitment on hiring new nurses, he has until the end of the year to hire 1,196 nurses.
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# nurses - Sunday 22 October, 2017
The Public Pay Commission is to examine what are the main reasons for the recruitment and retention of staff in some sectors.
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# nurses - Friday 13 October, 2017
The Psychiatric Nurses Association has said the situation is intolerable for patients and upsetting for staff.
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# nurses - Tuesday 10 October, 2017
Paschal Donohoe said health spending is already at record levels but is being increased because the area “needs improvement”.
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# nurses - Tuesday 3 October, 2017
Uptake of the vaccine among medical workers in Ireland is “appallingly low” according to Health Minister Simon Harris.
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# nurses - Sunday 3 September, 2017
US nurses who are being denied access to work here can’t find the adaptation courses they’re being told to take.
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# nurses - Tuesday 8 August, 2017
As part of our weekly Startup Spotlight we profile CliniShift.
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# nurses - Monday 12 June, 2017
Last July, 1,304 nurses from the EU registered in the UK but only 46 registered this April.
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# nurses - Tuesday 23 May, 2017
Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin urged the government to intervene.
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# nurses - Friday 12 May, 2017
“Vaccine hesitancy is increasingly becoming a major issue,” a HSE spokesperson said.
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# nurses - Thursday 11 May, 2017
There was a discussion around what is causing a mistrust of vaccines, which have eradicated many diseases in Ireland.
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# nurses - Wednesday 3 May, 2017
There’s been an improvement in Dublin, but things are getting worse in other counties.
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# nurses - Friday 7 April, 2017
Health Minister Simon Harris has said that the measures offer nurses and midwives “enhanced opportunities to advance their careers”.
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# nurses - Saturday 4 March, 2017
The INMO says it will ballot on WRC recommendations.
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# nurses - Sunday 12 February, 2017
“We would struggle to deliver care” warns consultant in emergency medicine as waiting lists and overcrowding dominate health sector.
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# nurses - Wednesday 8 February, 2017
The government’s proposals to deal with staffing problems were criticised as “too little too late”.
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# nurses - Monday 9 January, 2017
Hospital staff are being asked whether they wish to strike over payments and career progression measures.
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