Nurses campaign for better staffing

ABC, April 20, 2010 A petition will be launched in Orange today as part of a nurse staffing campaign. The New South Wales Nurses Association wants mandated minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in emergency departments and other health services across the state. The union says the Orange emergency department should have at least nine or 10 nurses on duty each shift but usually there are five or six during the day and three or four at night. Association organiser Linda Griffiths say nurses are getting burnt out. ... Nurses