Everyone deserves the right to safe care as a patient in hospital no matter where we live and that is what our nurses want to give.
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Only patients in major city hospitals have access to ratios of one nurse to four patients.
How can nurses provide the safe care we all deserve if the state and federal governments continue to slash health funding?
These cuts will hit rural areas hard.
Country hospitals are already struggling to keep patients safe, compared to city hospitals that have ratios.
I want the NSW government to back our nurses and prioritise public health so that every patient, in every part of NSW, can access affordable public health care.
My father is a nurse and he is struggling to help those who need him, what if three people had a heart attack at one time. Only one can survive if he can't get to the other two, how is he supposed to make that call ... can you make it?
Kye Walls, Port Macquarie