When speaking out becomes the issue: Nurse placed off duty over patient safety fears

A nurse motivated by his desire for patient safety has been placed off duty, writes Catherine Shanahan

IN THE carefully controlled media environment of the HSE, it’s rare for an employee to speak out. Those who do are usually more vital to the HSE than the HSE is to them.

Hospital consultants working in specialties where such expertise is hard to come by are usually the exception to the rule, so it’s a little more difficult to keep these specialists in check. Not so for nurses, who don’t enjoy the same elevated status in our health service.