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Non-clinical kaimahi working at Māori health providers are being trained to administer vaccines because.
Nurses Organisation Kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku says successive governments have failed to train enough Māori health professionals, leading to a massive shortage across the sector.
Nurses train for years to become registered and earn their regular annual certificate while non-clinical workers are only trained to carry out one task. As healthcare professionals we are trained in what if there is as anaphylactic shock, how do you look at the whole clinical assessment, not just do these one-off task activities. We need to make sure there is protection in lace for these unregulated staff, she says.
Staff stationed at the border and in managed isolation and quarantine facilities are currently the Government s top priority for inoculation, with high-risk frontline workers also eligible for the vaccine. However, a number of employees have yet to receive their first dose, with Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield admitting on Monday that officials don t have exact numbers on how many staff are continuing to work unvaccinated.
Speaking to The AM Show on Tuesday morning, Gorman said a lack of staff capable of administering the vaccine is not an excuse for the sluggish rollout to the 50,000-strong workforce. It s hard to reconcile that we re a year into a pandemic and we re having conversations like this, Gorman said.
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