Die Krankenschwestern des Naas General Hospital sind vor Protesten gegen den Personalbestand am „Bruchpunkt“.
https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/02/08/naas-general-hospital-nurses-at-breaking-point-ahead-of-protest-over-staffing-levels/
Von Static-Jak
5 Kommentare
As they should. The staffing has gotten ridiculous. HSE has cut down agency staff which is lovely on paper but they refuse to hire more of our own staff. So staff from already short staffed wards are being pulled out to cover other wards. It was honestly better when they had agency staff to cover the deficits.
People are living longer and are much sicker. HSE needs to staff wards reflecting the general hospital population. A lot of patients are heavily dependent on staff and may require assistance of two or sometimes 3 members of staff. Very hard to do when you staff the ward to the bare minimum. Mandated ratios or increase the pay or both to reflect the nature of the job.
Naas hospital has been unsafe for many years. The staffing is a chronic issue and part of it is no one wants to work there. To make it in any way appealing would require massive overhauls. You have 200 odd beds often only overseen by a single intern on nights, the majority of the staff are locum so theres no continuity of care, the scheduling rosters are brutal, the older sections of the hospital are falling apart. I’d honestly say it would be easier to close Naas and divert the resources to Tallaght.
I’m ignorant of the inner workings of the civil service but how much does the pay restriction for individual contributors cause these issues? In most traditional companies they’re moving away from the model of having a ceiling on IC’s pay because it’s making good workers HAVE to move into management if the want to advance in the pay scale, when management is a fundamentally different role with different skillsets.
I mean is that the reason we have so many middle management in the HSE because in order to get more pay a manager role has to be manufactured from somewhere?
Working as a nurse in healthcare for years I seem to say every year this is the breaking point. But then the following year is worse again. I know the general public are aware it’s bad but I honestly don’t think people realise just how dangerously bad it is. It is only through the vigilence of some but not all extremely diligent doctors and nurses that really serious errors are not being made. Every area is under resourced and under staffed except for higher management level. To make matters worse, staff are now dealing with families (and sometimes patients) who are understandably frustrated and worried but some of them are abusive adding to the stress of the staff a lot of who are ready to burnout. This was so rare and unacceptable years ago but it’s just ignored now. And to top it all off, if a major error or a complaint does happen it’s the nurse who was responsible for that patient who’s registration is at risk even if another colleague caused the problem or if a drug error occured due to being so understaffed in the first place. Honestly, although I always loved my job I would not encourage my kids to go into nursing, not now
I lived in Naas for 2 years and my goodness the management is such a failure. You’ll get better and faster treatment if you go to Portlaoise.