June 13, 2024
Nurses seek justice on patient ratios
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The New Zealand Nurses Organisation – Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa – has kicked off an 11-day nationwide bus tour – to raise awareness of what it says is the health crisis.
Kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku says the Ratio Justice campaign is calling for an increase in the minimum staffing number per patient to provide adequate levels of care for patient safety.
They are also promoting the right of tangata whenua to quality, culturally appropriate care.
“So the justice part of it is making sure that not only do we get numbers counting – but we say this is the standard of quality that we expect from the nurses to be able to deliver safe, clinical and cultural care,” Ms Nuku says.
She says the 7 percent of nurses who are Maori are increasingly being asked to cope with already-stressful jobs, as well as be frontline cultural support.