Voice Your Support
Support the fund nursing properly campaign. If you’re a New South Wales nurse tell us your story. Tell us about the pressure you are under to deliver the proper level of care to your patients. Nurses’ friends and families can also post their support here. Members of the public are also encouraged to post a message to support the nurses so we can safely care for you and your loved ones.
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Various members of our family have been in hospital and I can’t speak highly enough of the care by the nurses - hospital conditions and waiting lists may be appalling, but the human face at the end of it is always fantastic. I don’t know how they do it - I only hope they get what they need to keep doing it!
I am an ICU nurse with 14 years experience and am currently looking at other alternatives for a job. My husband is also a shift worker nurse and between us we have two small children. As I work a rotating roster I cannot obtain regular days of work hence I can not put my children into childcare and my roster comes out two weeks in advance for a two week period meaning I have to scramble around trying to get my children looked after on those days. There are even times when my Husband and I are both rostered on for the same night shifts and one of us either has to call in sick or take FACS leave. I have expressed my concerns to management about this numerous times and the standard response is “thats shiftwork”. Therefore I am looking at leaving this ICU job as it is not a family friendly working environment. It is expected from our workplace to put work first and all other committments second, which is just not sustainable. My Brother is an unskilled factory worker working in the suburbs of Sydney and he gets paid more money than i do on an hourly basis. How is this fair?
I will not pressure anyone to side with my political and rational beliefs.
But I do think that nurses should get paid more.
And I think the government should listen to the suggestions and arguements they are trying to put forward.
Not only will there be dire consequences if we lose numbers, but many people that cannot be operated on, will not hold out.
A lot of my friends parent’s are nurses and doctors, and they are always talking about how they don’t get paid enough. Why, Fiona is a cardiovascular nurse, and she HARDLY gets paid enough. And for someone that someone needs so vitally, and for her to fix that? So it works? Doesn’t she deserve more?
We owe these nurses more than we can ever pay.
So I suggest higher pay, more attention to their needs, and if they need some time off, give it to them, do not always put them under constant pressure.
So please, help them, to help us.
Because remember, next time, it could be you or a family member that needs their help.
My fiance is an RN, her mother was an EN, my grandmother an EN and obviously have nurses for friends as a result. As a former soldier, fireman and Rugby forward, I’ve received more than my fair share of medical care over the years and have the highest regard for such passion and dedication to a career. EVERY nurse I know has voiced abusive management and senior medical staff bullying. It’s so rife, it’s psuedo standard! The treatment by their own management is disgusting and would not be tolerated in the corporate world. Nurses are men and women of courage and determination to improve the lot of the common man. It is abhorrent and immoral how management play on their committment to patient care as a means of having power over them. If Nurses choose to stand their ground for a a fair go, I’ll be standing beside them 100%. So much of health funding goes to administration and administrators with nothing ever outcome driven. Less pen pushing, less penny pinching and more intelligent outcome driven designed to better the patients and the gut-busting nursing staff that get them through!
I have been nursing for over 10yrs and never in that time have I thought about a change of career until now. Responsive rostering will not allow for any work/life balance including child care arrangements. Not allowing nurses to request a roster that balances with there life and family in a time with increasing workloads and difficult working conditions is not going to benefit anyone. Dont underestimate what poor morale can do to a service. Nurses deserve more flexibility. It would be interesting to hear the general publics opinion on the amount of taxpayers money that has already been spent on attempting to implement something that nurses totally disagree with. Millions of dollars that we all know is much needed in all areas.
HELP ALL NURSES
GIVE THEM BETTER PAY AND ADD MORE STAFF SO THAT PATIENTS AND RESIDENTS GET THE CARE THAT THEY NEED!!!
Nurses deserve more!!!
Better working conditions and higher pay.
i know i am not a nurse, and i am only 15, but i just wanted to thank all the nurses throughout australia for all their work and help. without you guys i dont know where you or my family, or anyone elses would be so thank you SO much!
australia doesnt appreciate you enough, but your amazing and i hope one day i can be as selfless and caring as you guys.
thank you again, eleanor x
My mum has spent her whole working life looking after and saving people. Why won’t the government give something back to her and the rest od the nurses out there. Everybody will need a nurse one day.
I’m an RN on an already busy surgical ward, and meeting staff requirements is a constant battle (show me a ward where this isn’t the case!). We have recently been informed that we are now expected to routinely go over census to push increased elective patients through the hospital, but without additional staff to cover the workload! I’m stressed and tired and ready to look for another position, maybe even outside of nursing…