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Nurses are about to return to work this morning while a 24-hour strike on staffing shortages and wages ends.
Nurses gather on Queen St, Auckland, during the 24-hour strike.
Photo: RNZ / Dan Cook
Up to 30,000 nurses left work yesterday at 7am, during the first national nurses strike in three decades.
Nursing crowds parade through the streets The latest salary offer from District Health Boards while more than 5,000 nurses remained on duty for patient safety.
Auckland Nurse, Maria Armstrong, was part of a sea of purple protesters in front of Auckland City Hospital yesterday afternoon. the 5,000 staff members were saved during the strike and said the patients were safe and those who worked were in good spirits.
"We were good, normal and happy to be at work but happy to support our colleagues.
"But another busy day, so you do not have time to think too much about what's going on outside the room. 19659011] "Normally, it buzzes"
Auckland woman Nikki Mandow, who The husband was in the hospital, said the corridors normally animated were empty yesterday.
"Downstairs is really quiet, normally there are lots of shops and pharmacies, there's a Subway and there's hardly anyone here."
"There's normally a lot of world, there is a big screen, they are watching TV and that is She said that the night before the strike, the hospital staff had moved the beds of the other services that were closed so that the most acute patients can receive care in the occupied areas.
Joe How He was sitting at the entrance of the hospital rolling a cigarette while he was watching the protesters yesterday afternoon.
He said that he had been in the hospital for almost eight months and that the strike had not affected his day. like when they [the nurses] are in it. But I support them because you see the shit that they have to endure, there is a lot of people abuse in there. "
The hospital has staff as it should be"
Auckland nurse Holly Wilson joined the protester After a change at Starship, the hospital had more than nursing staff than usual.
She said that the hospital had a model of care that they needed every day, but that he did not have one.
We have appropriately equipped ourselves with life preservation services, but sadly, day by day, these kinds of people do not arrive.
"So we were rather calm today and quite overcrowded compared to a normal, really"
Another nurse, who wished to remain anonymous, stated that the number of staff members life protection legally required for the strike was a joke.
"We often work very regularly under this number and there are no consequences. There is no legal obligation on other days of the year, but today, if we had not reached this figure, the strike would be canceled because Is dangerous for patients.
Ms. Wilson stated that her colleagues were determined to see their demands met. Even if it meant more strikes.
"With the initial strike canceled, we were expecting a very good offer that would follow and that would not come in. The strike had already been canceled, which made many people angry. my colleagues and staff is that we will be pushing for this. "
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