Overpaid Irish nurses fail to do their jobs

GIVEN the present cost over-runs in the health service, paying unqualified people 80% of a full wage where everything they do has to be overseen by a qualified person anyway is a massive cost duplication.

And Irish nurses in general get overpaid and don’t do the work, they take “training days” off at the taxpayers’ expense, eg cannula insertion, ECGs, first dose medications. The standard line is “I’m not covered to do that” when in fact they are. They also leave a lot of the manual work to healthcare assistants and porters and use the ‘not covered’ line quite frequently here too.

Look at any other EU healthcare system and you will find nurses do this stuff and aren’t as lazy and overpaid as their Irish equivalents.