Student nurses working in hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic must be paid for their work, the Labour Party Health spokesman has urged. As previously reported by the Irish Examiner, the head of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has called for student nurses and midwives on unpaid placements during the Covid-19 pandemic to be treated as paid employees. Student nurses, like many healthcare professionals, are putting themselves out on the frontline to protect the public from the spread of Covid-19, Mr Kelly said. However, unlike many of their colleagues in our hospitals, they are not being paid, he added. “Student nurses who are working in our hospitals have living expenses too, they cannot just be reliant on their parents, or take out costly student loans to sustain them.

Source: Irish Examiner March 24, 2020 11:03 UTC