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ANF members continue fight to retain nurse/patient
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| Article Type: | Brief article |
| Subject: |
Nursing care
(Standards) Nursing associations (Political activity) |
| Pub Date: | 02/01/2012 |
| Publication: | Name: Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand Publisher: New Zealand Nurses' Organisation Audience: Trade Format: Magazine/Journal Subject: Health; Health care industry Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2012 New Zealand Nurses' Organisation ISSN: 1173-2032 |
| Issue: | Date: Feb, 2012 Source Volume: 18 Source Issue: 1 |
| Topic: | Event Code: 350 Product standards, safety, & recalls; 290 Public affairs |
| Geographic: | Geographic Scope: Australia Geographic Code: 8AUST Australia |
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| Accession Number: | 282425931 |
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Members of the Victorian branch of the Australian Nursing
Federation (ANF) are ramping up their campaign against the Baillieu
State Government's attempts to abolish mandated minimum
nurse/patient ratios. Early this month, Australia's industrial
arbitration authority, Fair Work Australia, suspended conciliation talks
between the ANF, the Baillieu Government and the Victorian
Hospitals' Industrial Association, because the Government refused
to make an offer, despite eight months of negotiations and a direction
from an authority commissioner. The authority is not able to make any
decision on staffing levels or qualifications. Earlier this month, hundreds of ANF members descended on Victoria's most marginal electorate, Bentleigh, held by the Liberal Government by just 202 votes, and door knocked, calling for support for current nurse/patient ratios and a series of television advertisements has just been launched. ANF state secretary Lisa Fitzpatrick said no room was Left to provide more productive nursing or midwifery care. "Patients are not widgets, hospitals are not factories. Victorians didn't vote for a Government that wants to cut their access to hospitals to pay for a budget surplus." |
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