The Victorian community respects the work that nurses, midwives and mental health nurses do. Nurses, midwives and mental health nurses save lives.
Sign the ANF petition and help Victorian nurses, midwives and mental health nurses.
The Respect our Work campaign is seeking improvements to nurses’, midwives’ and mental health nurses’ wages and staffing levels and our ability to provide safe expert care to patients, clients and residents in the next enterprise agreement. Victoria has a healthy nursing and midwifery workforce and a unique low vacancy rate. These claims will also help prevent a future nurse and midwife shortage.
Please sign the ANF online petition – Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu plans to end ratios – This is important to anyone who may need to go to hospital, and that’s all of us.
The Victorian community respects the work that nurses, midwives and mental health nurses do. Nurses, midwives and mental health nurses save lives.
We are seeking:
Competitive wages comparable to other states. Most Victorian nurses, midwives and mental health nurses are behind their interstate colleagues.
Improved nurse patient ratios in areas such as palliative care, emergency department, residential aged care, rehabilitation and geriatric evaluation management (GEM) units. In many cases we are asking for just one extra nurse per shift.
The introduction of ratios in day surgery, dialysis, day oncology and stroke beds. These areas have limited minimum nursing numbers.
Minimum mental health nurse patient profiles in inpatient, residential and high dependency unit. Mental health has no mandated minimum nursing numbers.
We know the community respects nurses, midwives and mental health nurses. It is vital the Victorian Government, the public sector employers and those who determine health policy go beyond rhetoric and also demonstrate respect by improving our ability to provide safe patient care instead of compromising patient care by asking us to do more with less.
To sign the petition or for further information please visit: www.respectourwork.com.au
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