QLD Residents, it is time to help your Paramedics

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Originally Posted by Creampuff

I also work in a hospital. The hourly rate is appaling! I also have had similar dealings with knife threats, aggressive patients (kick,bite,spit etc) I work in ER, ICU areas and Theatres...I am on $20 per hour. Recently the junior admin staff have had a raise and now earn $23 per hour ( for handling paperwork) Most nurses are on $21 per hour!
It is obvious to the government that paperwork comes before patients!!!

Mate the nurses do a fantastic job back in June I had a PE and spent about 8 hrs in the ED and then 3 days in ICU and about a week in the ward before I was allowed home
Laying flat on your back and fully aware of your surroundings for a week you can get a feel for the staff and the enormous pressures they are under esp in the ICU where someone in the bed next to me did not make it - the staff worked on them for over 1/2 hour tring to stabilize them and get them a theatre and they were concerned for me witnessing and hearing it as well
I had a few of the female and male nurses in the ward just drop by for a chat becuase I was young and fully coherient and couild carry on a full conversation and I think it was their little few minute escape and regroup and not talk shop
Even a 100 an hour is not enough for what these dedicated hospital and ambulance staff do day in day out