‘Drained and fatigued’: Healthcare workers share stories from the front line

From the moment the Ruby Princess docked in 2020 to the current wave of Omicron disrupting the community, healthcare workers have been on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This is the backdrop for the NSW government’s separate enterprise bargaining negotiations with the Health Services Union and NSW Nurses & Midwives Union, who between them cover nearly all hospital employees besides doctors, as well as employees of NSW Ambulance and disability and aged care workers. Both unions have gone on strike recently, the Health Services Union as recently as Thursday.

“I believe the community would want all of our incredible health workers to be treated respectfully and reasonably,” Mr Hazzard said. “The extraordinary job they do and particularly during COVID emphasises the need to achieve fair and balanced outcomes on wages and conditions.”After two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious diseases nurse Regina Spadavecchia feels “drained and fatigued”, and is considering leaving nursing altogether.

“It was incredibly demoralising to be seeing people in the same condition over and over again; people who are incredibly unwell and struggling to breathe, but are young and otherwise fit and healthy,” Mr Egan said.“It was incredibly, emotionally hard; I’ve never broken down in my job apart from working during that time, and everyone else was struggling with it too.”

Mr Egan said the main problem this year had been staff shortages, as other paramedics either contract COVID-19 or are furloughed due to close contacts. “What meant for us was, instead of bringing patients to our department and performing procedures like we normally do, we were going to them in the emergency department with our mobile equipment, which just completely changed our workflow and made everything take twice or three times as long.”

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