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“It just makes me feel on edge,”
An “astronomical” amount of healthcare operations are being cancelled every week as the HSE struggles to accommodate procedures, the Irish Patients’ Association has said. Stephen McMahon, who is director of the IPA, warned that hundreds of procedures are being cancelled every week due to a rise in Covid hospitalisations, which will prolong the already brutal […]
Nurses and midwives have said they are appalled at being told they must “respect” abortion in updated guidelines from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland. The Board has published an updated edition of its Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives (the Code) to “embrace” some recent legislative changes […]
Discrimination?
The HSE appears to have reversed its requirement for student nurses to receive the covid-19 vaccine before taking up clinical placements. In a letter seen by Gript, the Chief Clinical Officer now says the new directive supersedes previous correspondence which said students would be prevented from being assigned to placements in HSE facilities unless they […]
Student nurses who have been told that they must take a Covid 19 vaccine in order to begin their work placements in Irish hospitals are considering legal action to vindicate what they say is their right to refuse consent to be vaccinated, a source has told Gript. The move comes as a group of student […]
A promise that Simon Harris made to student nurses may come back to haunt him, after he joined the government in voting against paying student nurses in placement during the Covid crisis. Earlier this year, the then Minister for Health has announced that student nurses would be paid for the duration of the Covid-19 crisis. […]
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has called for the nurses retention bill to be scrapped this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. He said that the treatment of nurses who were being asked to pay a €100 rentention fee in a difficult year was in sharp contrast to the bonus Scottish nurses were receiving. “In […]
With almost half of all deaths associated with Coronavirus now taking place in nursing homes, the Minister for Health, has said that some nursing homes are still without proper personal protective equipment (PPE). Government decisions, including lifting a ban on visits to nursing homes and failing to make care homes a priority for PPE, are now […]