Emergency
Poor ED staffing continues to impact patient care
May 4, 2022
Ongoing pressure inside public hospital emergency departments (EDs) has prompted renewed calls by the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) for staffing ratios to be mandated on every shift. The NSWNMA wants the NSW government to introduce a ratio of one nurse to every three ED treatment spaces to improve patient care, backed by Bureau…
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Emergency
Poor ED staffing continues to impact patient care
May 4, 2022
Ongoing pressure inside public hospital emergency departments (EDs) has prompted renewed calls by the NSW…
Emergency
“Disappointed”: College of Emergency Medicine pans...
April 28, 2022
The Australian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM) has criticised the Liberal-National Government’s pre-election announcement on…
Emergency
Hospital emergency departments are under intense pressu...
October 6, 2021
Emergency departments around Australia have experienced COVID in a variety of ways. From the first…
Emergency
EDs in desperate need of 1:3 nursing ratios
June 16, 2021
Pressure is mounting inside the state’s emergency departments, with the latest hospital data revealing the…
Emergency
Better ratios mean improved outcomes in paediatric emer...
March 22, 2021
Increased nurse staffing has a marked effect upon patient outcomes in paediatric emergency departments, a…
Emergency
COVID-19 leads to “startling” change in ED present...
January 6, 2021
Emergency Departments have a drastic change in the number and acuity of patients being admitted through the…
Emergency
Better ratios mean improved outcomes in paediatric EDs
September 15, 2020
Increased nurse staffing has a marked effect upon patient outcomes in paediatric emergency departments, a…
Emergency
The frontline: Nurse Ashleigh’s story.
April 14, 2020
Nurse Ashleigh Woods will never forget the first time she had to help a doctor…
Emergency
More nurses for Blacktown ED
February 7, 2020
Staff and union pressure achieved three extra nurses per shift for Blacktown Hospital’s emergency department.…