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NURSES IN NAAS General Hospital have voted for industrial action.
The nurses began balloting on Monday and voted by a margin of 86 per cent to begin striking.
The ballot was organised by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.
Nurses said they were spurred on to ballot because of the “unsafe conditions” at the hospital.
Derek Reilly from the INMO had said that nursing staff were exasperated with the situation, and were concerned about patient safety and “terrible working conditions”.
The reason we voted for industrial action is emergency department overcrowding. There are people on trolleys around the hospital and there are not enough nurses to manage overcrowding.
He said the members of the INMO want the HSE to open up the 24 closed beds in the hospital and open the newly furbished medical assessment unit that cost half the taxpayer half a million euro but has not been opened due to a lack of staff.
He said that the nurses “are at the end of their tether” and that they are now seeking a meeting with management of the hospital to discuss the situation.
Should the industrial action go ahead, it would begin in early September and would involve strict work to rule to “cause maximum disruption to the HSE”.
Reilly said this would mean “trying to concentrate on patient care and losing the administrative functions. Our priority is the patients.”
“We need at least one nurse to 6 patients and occasionally you could have 20 patients to one nurse,” he said. “This isn’t about the budget, it’s about patient safety.”
There has been a total of 16 posts lost at the hospital since the beginning of the year.
Recently, posts have been frozen such as that of a nurse manager in the Emergency Department, which Reilly said the HSE deemed not critical enough to be filled.
The HSE said that it is awaiting formal notification from the INMO on the outcome of the ballot, and added:
On a daily basis staff and management in Naas General Hospital work to ensure safe and appropriate care is provided to patients in the hospital’s Emergency Department.
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I always thought this was the one that will have him eating porridge.
@ggg:
@ggg:
@ggg: yup. Of all of the cases against him this is the most likely to end up with a prison sentence. Easy to prove and automatic prison time.
They are really pushing for civil war over there! the democratics want to be careful what they wish for.
Where’s the charges for the people who repressed the hunter Biden laptop fiasco, and lying calling it a “Russian misinformation” all in the run up too the last election because it would have been detrimental impact on Biden campaign! Election meddling at its finest by the democratics and intelligence services..
@I9AQcjXs: Are you saying that Republicans aren’t democratic?
@I9AQcjXs: it’s not the democrats prosecuting him. Hunter biden is a private citizen and a republican led oversight commitee has admitted there is nothing illegal on the laptop. It is a nothing burger, as they say. If this is election meddling, what do you call trump asking georgia to ‘find’ 11k votes?
@I9AQcjXs: so Trump shouldn’t have to abide by the law because it might offend some of his lunatic supporters? Also you are way behind the time regarding Hunters laptop which even the GOP say is a nothing burger. Not to mention that he isn’t running for public office and never has. But you know who was running for office? Hillary Clinton, when her email story was announced the week before the election. But you’re not interested in facts are you? That’s why you didn’t know that the Laptop story has been done to death and proven to be much ado about nothing.
I’m not a supporter of trump but the alleged crimes committed in 2016 and 2020 are coming to the forefront now with prosecutions. He could have been prosecuted at the time but all this coming up now when he is running for election shows a pure political motivation to these allegations.
@Ciaran: can’t prosecute a sitting president, he was in office between those years. Also this particular offence didn’t happen until the end of 2020. Prosecutions in the USA take as long as they do here.
Finally an article on Niall Collins but surprise surprise, comments once again closed. Why do the journal feel he needs protecting from criticism or questions? None of this debacle is before the courts yet. Cowardly journal staff.
@ggg: Their website. Their terms and conditions. Their legal liability for content, including comments posted. I’m sure Their are plenty of forums on which you could comment online about that news story.
@Numinous20111: what legal liability? Nothing is before the courts. I’m thinking you may not know what legal liability is my friend.
@ggg: It’s commonsense, not cowardice. We have strong libel laws in Ireland and the commentators on here aren’t exactly known for their ability to fact check what they’re posting.
@The Big Baba: I can’t reply directly to ggg, so have to reply by means of your own comment. In your eagerness to comment, you are forgetting
or ignoring that comments here can be retrospectively relevant if legal process commences. Think also of why Fox News fired Carlson yesterday.
The amount of sad deluded people that refuse to accept how the lying treacherous orange thing is playing them for every penny he can.
@Gearoid MacEachaidh: nothing burger”
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