The INO have being harping on about the 35 hr week for decades.
What other healthcare professionals working in wards and outpatient departments are on a 35 hour week?Healthcare professionals other than nurses are on a 35 hour week. Nurses are on 39. Are they supposed to be happy about it?
Nurses are threatening industrial action
They are quite up front about making this an election issue.One would think there was an election on the way......
Just remember this the next time you hear anyone on the radio or TV bleating on about patient rights and conditions in hospitals. What they are really looking for is more money.
I also saw this programme and the waste and poor management was frightening. I've no doubt that the same goes on in our hospitals.Interesting program running on BBC2 at the moment "Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS". Superficially at least the Irish health system has a similar structure, ineffective hospital management - check, primadonna consultants - check, disaffected nurses - check.
The INO are a trade union for nurses and are mandated to lobby for them. They are not mandated to lobby for patients, or anyone else. Everything they say and do should be taken in that context.
Just remember this the next time you hear anyone on the radio or TV bleating on about patient rights and conditions in hospitals. What they are really looking for is more money.
It's not just the threatened ones that are threateneing the unthreatened ones are threatening as well!If nurses are threatened, then they probably should strike.
The INO are a trade union for nurses and are mandated to lobby for them. They are not mandated to lobby for patients, or anyone else. Everything they say and do should be taken in that context.
Just remember this the next time you hear anyone on the radio or TV bleating on about patient rights and conditions in hospitals. What they are really looking for is more money.
such as?nly serve to divert money from where it is needed.
This same union is always banging on about patient rights and dignity etc which really is a case of crocodile tears as their wage/hours demands only serve to divert money from where it is needed.
The same can be said for any career. I have seen no evidence that their are any major staffing shortages in nursing. Agency and non national nurses seem to be filling the gaps.I don't think you quite get it Yorky. Adequate nurses' pay is required to keep nurses in their chosen career. Without adequate pay, they quit and go work elsewhere (why shouldn't they!) Without adequate staffing levels, not enough wards can be kept open and not enough beds can be properly managed.
and the INO opposed a HSE directive last year that would have allowed faster admission to wards when A&E was overcrowded. The problem of overcrowding is caused by structural inefficiencies. All attempts to remedy this situation have been obstructed by the INO as they use any proposed change as an excuse to press for a pay increase.More and more patients continue to queue up for treatment regardless, leading to backlogs, overcrowding, delays, etc.
They no longer take blood, or do most of the orderly type work that took up much of their time 15 or so years ago. What is the average working week for nurses now?In the midst of this, those nurses that are left have to cope with ever increasing workloads, longer hours, stress, inadequate pay etc.
What I take from this is that you agree that nurses are not the selfless vocational workers that they portray themselves to be but are just like the rest of us and are motivated, to a large extent, by money. What I see is that every time they have a choice between lobbying government to spend very large but still limited resources on patient care of nurses pay they lobby for nurses pay.Do you follow the trend here? The nurses are the most vocal advocates of patient rights cos they are the ones who see first hand what is required, and this includes paying nurses enough money to keep nurses at work.
Isn't the huge proportion (between 30% & 60% from what I've seen) of non-national nurses evidence of a staffing shortage in itself?I have seen no evidence that their are any major staffing shortages in nursing. Agency and non national nurses seem to be filling the gaps.
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