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# new guidelines
Hospitals to require visitors to show proof of Covid vaccination or immunity from Monday
Frontline staff have welcomed the change, saying it was “ridiculous” that people had to show a Covid cert to enter a café but not an ICU.
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Nov 25th 2021, 3:39 PM
# Intensive care
INMO calls for services at St Vincent's ICU to be 'curtailed until unit is adequately staffed'
Nurses have to use a baby monitor to watch certain patients due to staff shortages, The Journal reported earlier today.
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Oct 7th 2021, 4:55 PM
# on the frontline
Staff shortages force ICU nurses at St Vincent's Hospital to watch patients with baby monitor
The ICU is at “breaking point”, nurses say.
The ICU is at "breaking point" with a few "near misses" in recent months, Órla Ryan reports
Nurses say they have been forced to use a baby monitor to watch certain patients due to staff shortages
"The pandemic broke us ... It was horrendous, some of the shifts we put in were indescribable."
'Exhausted' ICU nurses at St Vincent's say safety concerns they raised months ago have not been addressed
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Oct 7th 2021, 12:10 AM
# svuh
'Exhausted' ICU nurses at St Vincent's say safety concerns they raised months ago have not been addressed
Nurses have expressed frustration over shower and sink facilities, as well as not being prioritised for the Covid-19 vaccine.
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Jan 8th 2021, 1:46 PM
# stemi
St Vincent's hospital can't accept some heart attack patients until next week
This applies to ambulance transfers, and a spokesperson stressed that anyone who presents at the hospital will still be treated.
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Nov 7th 2014, 5:21 PM