FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David Penberthy revealed during Tuesday\u2019s Breaking @ 8 segment:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been contacted by a member of staff at the ED who says that they and other staff have been pleading with the Minster Stephen Wade, also with the CEO of SA Health Chris McGowan and with Lesley Dwyer the CEO of the central Adelaide local health network.\u201d<\/p>\n
Penbo quoted from a message from the nurse:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018We work in a high-pressure environment where we are often spat at. We have food and fluid thrown at us. We are verbally abused. At times we are physically abused and threatened and it\u2019s important that staff have somewhere to go to sit and relax and debrief.<\/p>\n \u2018The sofa in the tearoom is a disgrace. All the surfacing and covering has disintegrated over the years to the point where the only way we can cover it is with patient bed blankets…<\/p>\n \u2018The water cooler is stuffed. The microwave doesn\u2019t work. The toaster has problems. The ED team has been asking doctors and nurses to bring in their own personal money to set up a fund to enable the purchase of a new lounge. But the staff here feel it\u2019s a big ask to donate financially for chairs and so forth to sit on when we already give so much time and care back to the community.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n According to the nurse, an initial email regarding the tearoom was sent to the health minister and relevant CEOs in February this year, which received no reply.<\/p>\n Lesley Dwyer replied to a follow up email sent this month to say the decision on a new sofa would fall to a local manager.<\/p>\n PENBO: \u201cFor a department who\u2019s budget runs to $4 billion we reckon they can stretch to bring the conditions of the tea room for front end staff up to scratch.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n LISTEN:<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emergency Department staff at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital are struggling to have requests for simple upgrades to their tearoom heard, according to a whistleblower nurse. FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David Penberthy revealed during Tuesday\u2019s Breaking @ 8 segment: \u201cWe\u2019ve been contacted by a member of staff at the ED who says that they and other staff have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1551,"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":[244,231],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-27093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n