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Stuff state. NZNO wrote a letter to health board chief executive Ailsa Claire on Thursday, notifying her of breaches of health and safety and patients’ rights. The nurses’ union and health boards are currently in mediation over the current round of collective agreement negotiations.
Prior to the strike on June 9, it was agreed that anyone who required a patient attender (patients who require constant attention and supervision) must receive one, as a “minimum requirement for safety”, the union said.
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The union has put Auckland health board on notice, stating at least one patient has been physically harmed due to staffing issues.
The stress nurses are under is so bad, patients have begun to comment on it, the nurse said, and departments aren’t hiring any new staff. “The patients can see how busy we are, how stressed we are. Normally we can hide it, but it’s become too much.” A nurse from a different department said staffing had been “horrendous” since the start of the Covid-19 response. “It feels like there’s nothing going on to solve the problem. We have more people using sick leave due to fatigue, we’re meant to have six nurses on every shift, but we’re lucky to get five at the moment.