‘A quarter of graduate nurses leave for better conditions’

ONE-IN-FOUR nurses who graduated last year have emigrated in search of better working conditions, according to the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO).

Figures from An Bord Altranais, the board charged with registering nurses, shows approximately 25,000 nurses have registered their qualifications in Ireland in the past seven years and up to 9,000 of these nurses came from abroad.

The INO estimates 5,000 nurses have emigrated in recent years .