interesting article on nurses in NZ

Patients are suffering as heavier workloads, long hours, staff shortages and low morale take their toll on nurses and New Zealan'ds reliance grows on foreign-trained nurses. Why, despite extensive reforms, is the health system in such a bad way?

Bill Culley might have lived if just one of New Zealand’s 45,000 registered nurses had assessed his injuries after he fell at his Wellington rest home. Instead, he died in a manner that no one deserves – with septicaemia, bacterial meningitis and an oozing eye infection. His body had been invaded by the flesh-eating bug necrotising fasciitis.

http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3596..._me_nurse.html