‘Burnt Out’ Nurses Call for Patient Ratios

‘Burnt Out’ Nurses Call for Patient Ratios
Nurses demanded to have a mandated nurse-to-patient ratios and a pay rise of 4.75 per cent. AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi
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Newly-trained nurse Vanessa is fed up after less than a year in the New South Wales state health system.

She regularly cares for six patients during a shift and sometimes as many as eight, despite union calls for nurse-to-patient ratios of no more than one to four on general wards.