Australian hospitals are experiencing a mass exodus of experienced critical care nurses as the COVID-19 pandemic stretches healthcare workers unlike ever before, prompting medical colleges to warn of a workforce crisis.
Australian College of Nursing chief executive Kylie Ward said roughly 20,000 nurses had given up their registration this year, a number that had shocked her during a global pandemic.She said the nursing shortage was widespread, but particularly severe in aged care, maternity wards, mental health and critical care.
Ms Jaspers said hospitals across Victoria were struggling to fill their rosters. She noted that although the number of new coronavirus admissions into ICU was falling in Victoria, nurses were still caring for dozens of coronavirus patients who were lingering in ICUs for up to 12 weeks, including some of the most gravely ill.
She estimated there were roughly 12,200 vacant nursing positions in Australia, and said some hospital wards were forced to close temporarily when they had been unable to fill shifts.Mr Butcher said COVID-19 had taken a heavy emotional toll on healthcare workers, many developing post-traumatic stress disorder , depression and anxiety at exponential rates compared to before the pandemic.
Of concern, one of the significant predictors of PTSD, along with emotional exhaustion and burnout, was if healthcare workers worried their patients would not receive the appropriate level of care because of a shortage of resources –“Nurses like to look after people, and when they are forced to lower their standards of care it really, really eats at away at them,” Mr Butcher said.
A Graduate Certificate in Critical Care Nursing at the University of Melbourne costs about $11,000 and will rise by $336 next year. However, those nurses will be paid just an extra $56 a week.revealed Australia would allow 2000 overseas nurses and doctors to enter the country for work under a plan being finalised by the Commonwealth and states to ease a healthcare staffing crisis.
MeljCunningham They were treated like shit by many of the public Disgraceful It’s sad 😞
MeljCunningham As one of those nurses who has recently left the workforce the pandemic is just the icing on the cake. Maybe the powers that be should have listened to us long ago. justsaying
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MeljCunningham No surprise to many nurses&midwives. I’ve been saddened to see midwives drop their midwifery registration. The public needs to know how inadequate the staff patient ratios are in many areas such as maternity & how dissatisfied and disillusioned many felt pre pandemic..
MeljCunningham Stop 'vaccine' (covax) mandates then nurses won't leave the industry. Such mandates are unethical, immoral, illegal & an affront to human rights. Nazi Germany public servants were prosecuted at Nuremberg for such mandates. People have a fundamental right to own bodily integrity.
MeljCunningham Liberty is taken seriously and people in general are sick of the intrusions and being over governed by 3 levels of government ?
MeljCunningham Vaccine Mandates have seen the loss of thousands of nurses and ambos who worked through the Pandemic without a vaccine without a problem. The health system usstrug7ng due to post l8ckdown presentations, and we go ahead and sack last uears health heroes.
MeljCunningham Nurses are not paid enough - 1 lesson from the pandemic
MeljCunningham Can’t blame them. I’ll give up too when there’re still so many nutty anti vaxxers. The Pandemic may not end.
MeljCunningham State Govt and Med Admin run a toxic work environment and then are shocked by people resigning
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