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The ballot follows a review of regional consultation meetings where individual Executive members reported anger from nurses and midwives in the frontline. The meetings recorded examples of persistent overcrowding with no additional staff and excessive, unpaid working hours.
As a result, the Executive Council feel that the health, safety and welfare of staff and patients is being compromised.
In a statement, the INMO said: "The Government, HSE and all health employers must recognise the need to recruit and retain additional numbers of nurses and midwives in order to provide safe care.
"However the current efforts to recruit have failed as they simply cannot compete with either overseas recruitment markets and our own private hospital sector.
"Special recruitment and retention incentives are therefore required if the public health service is to succeed in attracting the nursing/midwifery staffing levels required to ensure safe care."
It continued: "The Executive Council has decided that the current, appalling, conditions for patients, and the utter disrespect by employers for nurses and midwives, must cease.
"The Organisation will now ballot members for a campaign of industrial action, commencing with a work to rule, which will be followed by a series of one day work stoppages."
The industrial action will seek to secure incentives aimed at enhancing the ability of health employers to recruit and retain nursing/midwifery staff, as well as secure adequate staffing levels, or to curtail services to a level necessary to provide safe care and a safe working environment, for members.
Martina Harkin-Kelly, President, INMO, said: "Our members have spoken and have clearly indicated they can no longer endure the working environment and will no longer accept having their professional judgement disrespected or ignored by management.
"Nursing and midwifery is in crisis and our health services are failing to meet the needs of patients. This action is absolutely necessary, and justified, in the interests of patients and our members.
"Accepted worldwide evidence demonstrates that patients are safest and mortality rates lower when there are sufficient nurses and midwives working in positive environments providing their care."
(JP/LM)
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INMO To Commence Ballot For Industrial Action
The Executive Council of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation's (INMO), has confirmed it is to hold a nationwide ballot of members in protest at their current working environment. The action is also being taken in response to the failure of management to recruit and retain nursing/midwifery staff.The ballot follows a review of regional consultation meetings where individual Executive members reported anger from nurses and midwives in the frontline. The meetings recorded examples of persistent overcrowding with no additional staff and excessive, unpaid working hours.
As a result, the Executive Council feel that the health, safety and welfare of staff and patients is being compromised.
In a statement, the INMO said: "The Government, HSE and all health employers must recognise the need to recruit and retain additional numbers of nurses and midwives in order to provide safe care.
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"However the current efforts to recruit have failed as they simply cannot compete with either overseas recruitment markets and our own private hospital sector.
"Special recruitment and retention incentives are therefore required if the public health service is to succeed in attracting the nursing/midwifery staffing levels required to ensure safe care."
It continued: "The Executive Council has decided that the current, appalling, conditions for patients, and the utter disrespect by employers for nurses and midwives, must cease.
"The Organisation will now ballot members for a campaign of industrial action, commencing with a work to rule, which will be followed by a series of one day work stoppages."
The industrial action will seek to secure incentives aimed at enhancing the ability of health employers to recruit and retain nursing/midwifery staff, as well as secure adequate staffing levels, or to curtail services to a level necessary to provide safe care and a safe working environment, for members.
Martina Harkin-Kelly, President, INMO, said: "Our members have spoken and have clearly indicated they can no longer endure the working environment and will no longer accept having their professional judgement disrespected or ignored by management.
"Nursing and midwifery is in crisis and our health services are failing to meet the needs of patients. This action is absolutely necessary, and justified, in the interests of patients and our members.
"Accepted worldwide evidence demonstrates that patients are safest and mortality rates lower when there are sufficient nurses and midwives working in positive environments providing their care."
(JP/LM)
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