Image: Shutterstock/Corrado Baratta Image: Shutterstock/Corrado Baratta FROM THIS MONTH, hundreds of student nurses across the country will begin their unpaid work placements amidst the coronavirus outbreak that is putting unprecedented spotlight and pressure on our health services.
Last week, 30,000 people applied within two days last week for jobs within the HSE after a call for all those qualified from Health Minister Simon Harris at this time of national crisis. Laura* is one of these student nurses. She told TheJournal.ie that entering the health system at a time like this “I want nothing more than to help”.
But – as the health service braces itself for an onslaught of cases of Covid-19 – this is a completely unprecedented situation. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has said that students taking up roles should be paid and protected as employees, if that is the role they are undertaking.It included: “That training not be interrupted where possible. [That] proper supervisions continues during any training – and if interrupted for any reason which is not your fault, we will advocate for the best possible outcome.
time for politicians and senior civil servants and rte 'stat's salary to be cut in half to help.
U learn best by doing not reading books.
Support the nurses!!!
Pay them and pay them well
It’s long been held that student nurses are on (unpaid) placement as ‘part of their course just like other students’ under the guise of their being ‘supernumerary’.Now med students placements have been cancelled&yet student nurses placements are going ahead slavelabour shameful
God bless them all🙏
40,000 people waiting for tests. That's almost 1% of the population showing symptoms of the virus already.
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