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Nurses take action for better conditions, better pay, more staff

Apr 17 2023 Updated April 17, 2023

Wynsley Wrigley

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WE’VE HAD ENOUGH: Gisborne nurses present their case to the public for better conditions, better pay and more nurses at Heipipi-Endeavour Park on Saturday. The rally was part of a national campaign in which the New Zealand Nurses Organisation is asking political parties how they would resolve “the nursing crisis”. Picture by Paul Rickard

Nursing is “horrible” and some go home from Gisborne Hospital crying.

So say two of the Tairāwhiti nurses who campaigned on Saturday for better conditions, more nurses and better pay to resolve a “nursing crisis”.

Nurses met at Heipipi-Endeavour Park, despite the wet weather, and with banners and the support of family members, they walked to Kelvin Park where speakers presented the...

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Michell Krawczyk

17 April 2023

Yes it is very dire in the hospital currently and a stressful place to work as a nurse not only on the wards, but in other areas too. It is heartbreaking watching your former colleagues on the wards struggling when there are only two on shift when there are meant to be 5. Redeployed nurses though happy to help struggle as they are in unfamiliar areas, but also they have to go back to their own roles where their work has now piled up with no help to reduce it. It is a vicious cycle with no end in sight. The way it is going there will be not many of us left soon.

Nurses take action for better conditions, better pay, more staff

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