Boards nurses...is there anything to this?

tallaght01

Or is it more of the same media crap that us docs have been putting up with for ages?

http://www.independent.ie/health/latest-news/nurse-managers-want-private-tea-rooms-1671606.html

irish independent wrote:

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By Eilish O'Regan Health Correspondent
Friday March 13 2009
Five senior nurse managers accused by the HSE of losing a hospital over €30,000 a month are now demanding their own private toilets and tea rooms, it was claimed last night.

The assistant directors of nursing at Portiuncula Hospital in Galway have been on sick leave since November following their refusal to co-operate with an investigation into management difficulties.

The HSE last night called on the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) to help end the impasse following the breakdown of exploratory talks at the Labour Relations Commission in Dublin.

"The assistant directors of nursing in question are endeavouring to dictate to management their own personal terms and conditions including their own private tea rooms and toilets despite suitable facilities being already in place," said a spokesman.

"The INO would never dream of attempting such a tactic in any private hospital but it seems that they regard the public health service as fair game."

The INO said the talks have not failed but have been adjourned. "The reason for the adjournment was the refusal of hospital management and HSE West to engage with the exploratory talks based on a pre-condition that a motion of no confidence in local management be withdrawn," an INO spokesperson said.

- Eilish O'Regan Health Correspondent

JuliusCaesar

I can't imagine ADONs looking for their own private tea-rooms, seeing the ones I work with don't even have their own offices. They share an office and a secretary. Maybe that's just the hospital I'm familiar with (Dublin).

DrIndy

It sounds ridiculous - but the HSE are very good at spin - there may be a little more to this than meets the eye.

Kristopherus

I'm not 100% on the rights & wrongs, but this dispute has been going on for the past 3/4 months. Well time for some heads to be knocked together.

godhatesme

You're a cranky **** Tallaght01!

bandraoi

DrIndy wrote: »

It sounds ridiculous - but the HSE are very good at spin - there may be a little more to this than meets the eye.

Actually I've always found the opposite to be true, the INO are extremely good at spin and the HSE have alot of difficulty getting their points across because of issues like confidentiality.

Amnesiac_ie

Having seen how expertly the HSE played the media and misrepresented NCHDs in the recent past I really would not take any newspaper article consisting of little more than "HSE sources" at face value.

JuliusCaesar

According to the INO the dispute is about patient safety concerns: from the Athlone paper

badolepuddytat

Hi all, this is my first post here, am an occasional lurker and a general nurse.

bandraoi wrote: »

Actually I've always found the opposite to be true, the INO are extremely good at spin and the HSE have alot of difficulty getting their points across because of issues like confidentiality.

Would disagree with the efficacy of the INO tbh, given the conditions so many nurses are working under and public opinion of nurses at the moment. I don't know anything about this case but it sounds ridiculously misrepresented - in times like this especially I can't imagine ADONs acting like that.