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ANMF Media Release: Code Yellow at LGH
ANMF Media Release: Code Yellow at LGH 7 August 2024 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch (ANMF) invites the Tasmanian media to the activation of Code Yellow at 10.30am, Wednesday, August 7 at the Launceston General Hospital. ANMF Branch Secretary Emily Shepherd said the Federation will [...]
ANMF Media Release: Code Yellow at LGH
ANMF Media Release: Code Yellow at LGH August 2024 Code Yellow at LGH The Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation Tasmania has had to take the extraordinary action of enforcing a Code Yellow protocol at the Launceston General Hospital Emergency Department. Code Yellow is an internal emergency escalation code [...]
ANMF Media Alert: Safe Hospitals Save Lives – ‘Code Yellow’
ANMF Media Alert: Safe Hospitals Save Lives - 'Code Yellow' The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch (ANMF) are alerting the community of a Code Yellow alert on behalf of LGH ED members after ANMF members activated the Code Yellow on Tuesday 14 August. ANMF Members activated [...]
ANMF Media Alert: Safe Hospitals Save Lives ‘Code Yellow’
ANMF Media Alert: Safe Hospitals Save Lives 'Code Yellow' The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch (ANMF) are issuing a Code Yellow alert on behalf of LGH ED members after ANMF members activated the Code Yellow Alert overnight Thursday 8 August and again Friday 9 August 2024. [...]
ANMF Media Release: Vacancy Control
Vacancy Control 2 August 2024 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) Tasmania today welcomed the Tasmanian Liberal Government’s decision to quarantine nurses and midwives from the ongoing vacancy control program. ANMF Tasmanian Branch Secretary Emily Shepherd said the ANMF has been lobbying for Nurses and Midwives to [...]
ANMF Media Release: Nurses as Security? ANMF Says No!
Nurses as Security? ANMF Says No! July 2024 The ANMF (Tasmania Branch) today stated it will fight a new Royal Hobart Hospital practice of training Associate Nurse Unit Managers to perform searches and pat-downs for weapons on patients. ANMF Branch Secretary Emily Shepherd said she was shocked to [...]
ANMF Media Release: Protected Action Ballot
Protected Action Ballot July 2024 The ANMF (Tasmania Branch) said today it will escalate its campaign against Tas IVF. ANMF Tasmania Branch Secretary Emily Shepherd said the ANMF has applied to the Fair Work Commission to run a protected action ballot at Tas IVF Pty Ltd. “The protected [...]
ANMF Media Release: Government In Hiding EMBARGOED UNTIL 1PM, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2024
Government In Hiding EMBARGOED UNTIL 1PM, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2024 5 July 2024 Government In Hiding EMBARGOED UNTIL 1PM, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2024 The ANMF (Tasmania) invites the Tasmanian media focus on vacancy issues at Tasmania’s three major hospitals at the ANMF, 182 Macquarie St, Hobart at 1pm, [...]
Launceston General Hospital Wombat Wards Seclusion Practice Concerns Silenced by Management
Launceston General Hospital Wombat Wards Seclusion Practice Concerns Silenced by Management The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) Tasmanian Branch is dismayed by the response ANMF members working at the Launceston General Hospital (LGH) have received when raising child safeguarding issues related to the care of those patients [...]
Government Wage Theft and Staffing Cuts Crisis for Nurses and Midwives amid Vacancy Control Measures
Government Wage Theft and Staffing Cuts Crisis for Nurses and Midwives amid Vacancy Control Measures The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) Tasmanian Branch have commenced consultation with nurses and midwives on industrial action on account of ongoing wage theft and unsafe staffing, along with the announcement of [...]