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To: Ms Anne Cross - CEO UnitingCare Queensland
Support Blue Care nursing staff
We call on Ms Cross to keep residents safe by stopping the cuts to nursing staff and stopping the transfer of medication management from RNs to PCs.
Why is this important?
UPDATE: Management have now told us they will cease enterprise bargaining for 12 months and offer nursing staff a 2.25% administrative wage increase. This announcement follows repeated insistence by the QNMU that staff be given a decent wage increase outside of a new EA. Management’s wage increase is less than nursing staff deserve, involves no back pay, and will be paid nearly two years after our last wage increase. It’s too little, too late – way too late.
Blue Care nursing staff work very hard to deliver the best quality care to residents in order to maintain their dignity and quality of life. But Blue Care has not employed enough nursing staff to keep residents safe, and now Blue Care plans to cut nursing staff to new lows.
Blue Care residents deserve better than this. Blue Care needs to employ enough nursing staff to ensure residents receive the safe high quality care they deserve.
Blue Care is also planning to transfer medication management from RNs to much lower paid PCs, whose medication training is generally not adequate to safely discharge increased medication responsibilities.
Blue Care nursing staff work very hard to deliver the best quality care to residents in order to maintain their dignity and quality of life. But Blue Care has not employed enough nursing staff to keep residents safe, and now Blue Care plans to cut nursing staff to new lows.
Blue Care residents deserve better than this. Blue Care needs to employ enough nursing staff to ensure residents receive the safe high quality care they deserve.
Blue Care is also planning to transfer medication management from RNs to much lower paid PCs, whose medication training is generally not adequate to safely discharge increased medication responsibilities.