Safe Hospitals Save Lives!
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Organising Team have been out in workplaces discussing with members the current ‘Safe Hospitals Save Lives’ campaign. We encourage all members to complete our survey in the newsflash sent out on Thursday 25 July 2024 to advise of the Industrial Action your ward/unit is willing to undertake. View the newsflash here. Members will move to commence low level industrial action as early as next week. Please keep an eye out for information coming to you outlining the details of this action, as well as your ANMF Official who will be out in your workplace. The ANMF stand with you united towards ensuring that your workplace is safe and that you have the number of nurses, midwives and AINs on each shift you require to maintain safe staffing levels. Members have told us they are prepared to undertake industrial action, FOR AS LONG AS IT TAKES!!!
Campaign Flyers and Resources:
Click on the links below to view campaign flyers.
- Work to Rule – Work It, Claim It!
- Short-Staffed, Overtime and Double Shifts
- Take Action with Confidence
- Are you concerned about the critical issues of short staffing, access block and overall hospital safety? Email the Tasmanian Health Minister Guy Barnett – Ensure your voice is heard!
- Are you concerned about the critical issues of short staffing, access block and overall hospital safety? Write a letter to the editor! The Examiner Newspaper – Ensure your voice is heard!
- Are you concerned about the critical issues of short staffing, access block and overall hospital safety? Write a letter to the editor! The Mercury Newspaper – Ensure your voice is heard!
- Get your friends #OnYourTeam – Receive a $50 Gift Card when you refer a friend to join the ANMF Tasmanian Branch.
Code Yellow!
On Tuesday 23 July 2024, LGH ED nurses voted to take control of unsafe situations by commencing Industrial Action. If two or more of the parameters below are breached during your shift, scan the QR code (featured on the ANMF newsflash here) and complete the 7-question survey to call a ‘Code Yellow’:
1. Nursing Staffing: Less than 22 on a morning shift, 25 on an afternoon shift, 21 on a night shift, no capacity for oncall, immediate backfilling and or overtime and double shifts being used to fill staffing deficits?
2. Ramped Patients: 2 or more patients, ramped for greater than 30 minutes?
3. Corridor Patients: Were patients offloaded to a corridor or non-clinical space without capacity to provide care (excluding the 3 ambulance offload spaces)?
4. Waiting Room Patients: More than 15 patients in the waiting room?
5. Total ED Patients: 45 patients or greater are on the screen?
6. 1:1 Ratio Patients: 2 or more patients requiring a 1:1 ratio (inclusive of psychiatric, paediatric ICU and NCCU patients), ANUM informed and was unable to allocate the 1:1 ratio?
7. Admission/Admitted Patients: 4 or more patients waiting for admission, or an admitted patient has been waiting more than 12 hours, or an ICU/NCCU/MHS is patient waiting for admission?
Read the full ‘Code Yellow’ Newsflash and scan the QR Code to access the survey.
