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As nurses, we are obliged to care for our people. As human beings, nurses can only render the best care to a certain number of clients per day. The increasing and changing needs of the South African Society requires more nurses to reduce the workload on the few nurses currently in service. Increased needs and fewer nurses lead to drained personal and professional reserves needed to provide care. “Indeed extra workload hurts”. Our extra workload deprives nurses of job satisfaction, undermines the citizens’ rights to quality care, it drags down the reputation of the health care institutions, but also the integrity of the ministry of health and undermines the government’s commitment to provide quality health care services to its citizens. “Extra workload hurts”… Nurses are obliged to care,
but who cares for the nurses? Nurses are overstretched and will continue
to be so, due to nurses moving to less stressful jobs, migration of
colleagues and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. If the SANC serves to protect the public, it must pressure the employers to offload the burden from nurses, to ensure a safe, quality health service. Extra workload increases risk. Nurses are also citizens of this country and are protected by the South African Constitution. Extra workload hurts; does the employer protect nurses’ rights to safety? Do nurses have a right to be listened to, or are they just tools to be used and discarded? “Extra Workload Hurts”, speak out against the hurting of nurses.
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