From a nurse in NSW Health. “We are short staffed every shift by about 4 nurses. Cannot recruit any more…

From a nurse in NSW Health. “We are short staffed every shift by about 4 nurses. Cannot recruit any more staff, no one is applying. Staff are resigning because of the new protocols and workload. We have had pandemic pay relinquished, so if we get COVID at work…/1

…it’s our own sick pay. We are turning away scores of people symptomatic of COVID who just want to be tested on top of increased presentations and no real way to have patient movement facilitated so we don’t spread COVID to the immunocompromised patients there for other.../2

…illness. It’s just a shit fight. We all know it.”