Research
Work shouldn’t hurt: WHS survey for nurses and midwives
Australian Unions are seeking input from nurses and midwives about your experience of health and safety in the workplace.
Click here to take the survey.
Building on previous feedback, researchers are keen to understand your experience at work, what is important to you, and what requires improvement.
This year, further questions have been included for specific workers, including those exposed to airborne contaminants, and those experiencing menopause-like symptoms that may impact work. The study seeks to ascertain what employers are doing, and what changes are required to make workplaces safer for workers.
In the past two years, unions have drawn upon the experience of more than 40,000 workers who shared their workplace mental health stories, resulting in all states and territories agreeing to introduce strong regulations to better protect workers’ mental health.
Input from nurses and midwives is vital to securing improvements to health and safety conditions in workplaces across the country.
The survey is open now and is available until Friday, 11 August 2023.
jack Schwartz says
I worked as a pychiatroic RN for 45 years, I was hospital trained in a big schedule 5 hospital, we did 12 weeks of class work the rest of the time was working on the wards. Now since psychiatry is no longer a specialty, any list A RN can work in psychiatry. What is wrong here is that to save money experienced RNs are being subtly replaced with New Grads and year 1 RNs. In my unit we lost 400 years of experience. Thus we lost RNs who were specifically trained for the work. It appears to me that those who replaced us had a maximum of 6 weeks. Thus they have no real counselling skills. NSW Health handing medications and writing reportse finally got what they wanted, nurse and cheaper RNS. This was started in the late 80s when psychiatric nurses were made to be List A nurses.It was not too bad at first as their was lots of trained in hospital to help the newbies.
Because of this the clients lost out as the RNs were not completely trained.
Now MH clients get medications and little if any counselling.
This was the final straw for me as there was no job satisfaction.