{"id":16110,"date":"2017-01-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/nurses-say-they-had-no-choice-but-to-take-drastic-action\/"},"modified":"2017-01-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T00:00:00","slug":"nurses-say-they-had-no-choice-but-to-take-drastic-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/nurses-say-they-had-no-choice-but-to-take-drastic-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurses say they had no choice but to take drastic action"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Patient numbers in emergency departments at the RAH and QEH will be limited this weekend after nurses decided to take industrial action over bed closures.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cOur members thought that they had absolutely no choice nut to undertake this action,\u201d the nursing and midwifery union\u2019s Professor Elizabeth Dabars told FIVEAA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decided that the worst outcome would be if we allowed these beds to close.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is serious for everyone\u2026 We do need to send a strong message. This is just not going to be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/303423707&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But Prof Dabars said the action would cease if patient safety was put at risk\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to stand up for our patients now and get an outcome. This is never our first preference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[But] if at any time it\u2019s looking compromising for our patients, we would always take the priority of the patient and override our own action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prof Dabars pleaded with Jack Snelling to reverse the closures:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want the minister for health to urgently intervene in overturning the decision to close those beds and uphold his commitment to keeping beds open as long as they are needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/simon-hill-drops-an-absolute-clanger-on-fiveaa\"><strong>SIMON HILL DROPS AN ABSOLUTE CLANGER ON FIVEAA!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/bazz-and-pilko-together-again\"><strong>BAZZ AND PILKO REUNITED &#8212; AND IT WAS TOTAL CHAOS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patient numbers in emergency departments at the RAH and QEH will be limited this weekend after nurses decided to take industrial action over bed closures. \u201cOur members thought that they had absolutely no choice nut to undertake this action,\u201d the nursing and midwifery union\u2019s Professor Elizabeth Dabars told FIVEAA. \u201cWe decided that the worst outcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-16110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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