Psych nurses to strike over staff shortages

STAFF shortages, bordering on what a nurse’s union described as “dangerous”, are affecting day services at a hospital for intellectually disabled people.

The day services for resident patients on the campus of St Ita’s psychiatric hospital in north Dublin have all but ceased, it has been claimed.

The Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) warned it is set to proceed, this week, with “some form of industrial action” as an agreement made with the HSE concerning the hospital had not been honoured.