Have you caught the Association’s latest television ad?
It’s a follow-up to commercials created during the 2010 campaign for 1:4 ratios, such as this one:
Then, when the campaign had been won, came a victory ad that reinforced how important ratios would be to nurses – and patients – in our everyday work.
Tamworth Hospital in northwest rural NSW is using YouTube, among other media, to advertise for nurses in their Critical Care team (including Emergency, Intensive Care and retrieval teams), as well as in theatres, maternity and orthopaedics. This follows pressure from NSWNA members in Tamworth, via a ‘reasonable workloads’ dispute process, for the local health management to start recruiting more nurses, via every possible avenue, including YouTube.
Management agreed to advertise in major newspapers such as The Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald – these ads include links to the YouTube ad, which promotes the ‘work, life and balance’ (not to mention ‘affordable housing’) to be found in Tamworth. Backing music is by a local doctor.
“Nurses don’t give up on our patients and we won’t give up on the global economy”
Two NSWNA officials are joining other nurses and midwives from around the world at the G20 meeting in Cannes, France this week.
NSWNA president, Coral Levett, and assistant secretary, Judith Kiejda, will join nurses and midwives from countries such as the USA, South Korea, France and Ireland at various “People’s G20” and “Labour Movement 20 (L20)” meetings and at a special media event on Thursday, 3 November, at which the ailing international economy will be “treated” with the FTT.
Watch the fantastic video below as nurses heal the world economy!
Don’t forget to enter our Nurse Uncut Christmas Contest! You could win an Ipad 2 worth $894!
A video by NSWNA member Frances Usherwood of public secotr workers rallying at The Domain in Sydney to protest Barry O’Farrell’s IR laws that will affect their pay and conditions.
Did you attend the rally?
You can watch the video below and share your thoughts on the rally in the comments section.
We want to hear from you!
Do you agree with the issues raised in the speech? What are your thoughts on the IR laws?
Image credit: NSWNA.
Check of some of the fantastic entries from the NSWNA 2011 Short Film Festival.
“Compassionate Gestures” by Barbara Merino focuses upon capturing the imagery of the unique relationship between the nurse and the relative that visits the patient frequently throughout the cycle of the patient’s illness and stay.
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