'This is a picture of four psych nurses walking to work because we are the bottom of the pile'Aoife Butler (23), from Co Wexford, felt psychiatric nurses were "the bottom of the pile" during the blizzard conditions as they struggled to get lifts from emergency personnel. Speaking to Independent.ie, Aoife said that she wasn't complaining about walking to work, as she realises many people were forced to. Psychiatric nurses in Waterford voted for strike action last month in a dispute over staff shortages and overcrowding. The Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) commenced industrial action on February 20. "This is a picture of four psychiatric nurses who had to walk to work because being psychiatric nurses we are bottom of the pile."

Source: Irish Independent March 05, 2018 21:22 UTC