Our elders been effected
Thanks for letting us speak
I work in public hospital. our ward can look after more than 40 patient. we always been provided 6-7 stafffor pm shift and 4-5 night shift and 8 every morning and they can be less depend on who called sick or been canceled by the Adon most of the time not replaced . We could receive 4 to 8 patients confused plus palliatives patient the critical patient on telemetry plus postop patients. Nurses been running in this dangerous situation to look after these patients not having breaks or even feeling too worried to leave the area they work at to go to toilet. we witnessed patients fall with hitting head or wonder outside the ward without nurses knowing due to heavy loads , COVID made it worse and nurses leaving their position because of refusing mandated vaccination effected us badly. We love our job we worked hard to obtain higher education not to see our patients that we looked after for years getting hurts or die due to lack of staff or bad ratio. As nurse we all scared all the time for not able to comply with code of conduct or ethics. We feel our Proffesional career was effected. Since we been threatened to take the vaccination or lose our work things is not the same I witnessed managers making meetings pushing staff to stay. The new graduate nurse being used to stay overtime to cover shift. All the things managers say to us this is what has been provided to us nothing else. I know no one will release this but this is our huge concerns and because we have been in a lot of pressure for the past 3 years and nothing happened to protect us I decided to release this thanks for listening