Safe staffing was the biggest issue highlighted in a recent survey completed by members of the Irish Nurses & Midwives Organisation .“This was reflected in midwifery as well where 81% of midwives outlined that the which is one midwife to 29.5 births… was not being implemented in their workplace.”
He added that Irish hospitals need more staff and the best place to measure that is “actually at the bedside”.“You’ll see that there’s significant numbers in midwifery alone where they will account that there’s over 9,000 midwives on the register but there’s only 50% of them working in patient facing roles,” he said.
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