Emergency department nurses ask public to support tomorrow’s strike
The strike is part of a nationwide campaign of protest against years of inhumane, undignified and immoral conditions that we, as professionals and the patients we are accountable to, have endured.
As a group of well educated and highly skilled nurses we have reached the point where our ability to maintain safe standards of care, in the face of horrendous overcrowding, is being compromised, due to inadequate staffing and a building that has been described by so many as being “unfit for purpose”.
To put it in context, as a centre of excellence in the West of Ireland, UHG serves a population of 700,000 people.
We neither have the space nor the staffing resources required to meet the needs of that size of population and we believe urgent action needs to be taken by Government to address this crisis.
Our patients deserve safe standards of care. They deserve clean, well- staffed, timely professional nursing care when they attend our Emergency Department.
Patients, and their families, have witnessed first-hand the mayhem, congestion, abuse
and intolerable conditions that both nurses and patients have had to endure in the ED setting. What a sad indictment of a health service that purports to put the patient first.
If you have been one of those people anytime in the past, your support is of paramount importance to our campaign.
We are calling on members of the public to support our strike action at UHG on Tuesday from 2-4p.m. to convey to Government how essential a new Emergency Department, with appropriate staffing, is to the people of Galway and the West of Ireland.
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