Nurses call for action to tackle A&E crisis

Evelyn Ring

A peak of 365 patients were waiting for beds as nurses in hospitals around the country struggled to cope with fresh admissions.

The Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) called for a number of steps to be taken to ease the crisis including the cancellation of all elective admissions and day procedures, additional ward rounds by hospital consultants to ensure speedy discharge, the purchase of all available nursing home beds and the employment of additional nursing and other support staff to deal with the extra workloads.