The administration has finally issued a directive confirming that our safety protocols will be adjusted and that attendance requirements are being aligned with current health standards. This adjustment would not have occurred without the persistence of the 170 people who maintained their resolve throughout this process. We will remain observant …
August 24, 2020
Final supporters
Protection is not just PPE
All students at the college are attending classes when it was specifically stated by the MEC of Higher Education stated that only final year students who need to do practicals should be attending.
We complete an online screening tool daily but no action is taken after completion of this tool
We will be expected to work until December, expected to place our lives in danger daily, whereas lecturers will be safe at home because they even refuse to accompany us to clinical areas
When asked about compensation for COVID19 related deaths the response is - Covid-19 is not regarded as an occupational hazard but as a national pandemic, therefore the college or the clinical facilities cannot be held responsible for any death that occurs. Basically we are not protected in any way
COVID19 is an extra-ordinary situation that the whole world is dealing with - but we are expected to continue with things in an ordinary way.
Students are expected to write tests while attending clinicals, despite being taught at 1hr intervals
Some students have received ONLY a surgical mask as PPE in the ward
Updates
July 21, 2020
The steady growth of this petition confirms that the safety concerns of nursing students cannot be ignored. We are now preparing to present these grievances to the administration with the weight of this collective momentum behind us.
Reached 100 supporters
July 21, 2020
90 Comments
Nursing students are not covered by any insurance they are not employees or volunteers they're forced to attend or lose their academic record. That is dictatorship
Nursing student's are also human beings. If you send them to clinical during this Pandemic then the are also entitled to all the benefits that applies to professional nurses, and full PPE
Nursing covid patients at Helen Joseph with just a surgical masks and being told by lecturers that if hospital has no PPE it's not their problem.. we should go with the flow If we die it's not the colleges business. RIP!
Thank-you for raising the concerns,otherthing at college they don't care about us who is infected(sick) the only thing they worry about its hours that we supposed to pay back,they don't even sympathize with us instead they shoutbat us as if we did ask the virus .They don't respect us they are talking to us as small kids
Students are being put at risk of contracting corona virus, students have no medical aid and are not even entitled to compensation should they catch the disease. Students are told to work back hours in their own time
Our life are in danger
They need proper PPes thats all they asking for
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The administration has finally issued a directive confirming that our safety protocols will be adjusted and that attendance requirements are being aligned with current health standards. This adjustment would not have occurred without the persistence of the 170 people who maintained their resolve throughout this process. We will remain observant …
August 24, 2020
Final supporters
Protection is not just PPE
All students at the college are attending classes when it was specifically stated by the MEC of Higher Education stated that only final year students who need to do practicals should be attending.
We complete an online screening tool daily but no action is taken after completion of this tool
We will be expected to work until December, expected to place our lives in danger daily, whereas lecturers will be safe at home because they even refuse to accompany us to clinical areas
When asked about compensation for COVID19 related deaths the response is - Covid-19 is not regarded as an occupational hazard but as a national pandemic, therefore the college or the clinical facilities cannot be held responsible for any death that occurs. Basically we are not protected in any way
COVID19 is an extra-ordinary situation that the whole world is dealing with - but we are expected to continue with things in an ordinary way.
Students are expected to write tests while attending clinicals, despite being taught at 1hr intervals
Some students have received ONLY a surgical mask as PPE in the ward
Updates
July 21, 2020
The steady growth of this petition confirms that the safety concerns of nursing students cannot be ignored. We are now preparing to present these grievances to the administration with the weight of this collective momentum behind us.
Reached 100 supporters
July 21, 2020
90 Comments
I truly stand against the victimisation of students. We as students sacrifice our lives to work in clinical facilities without being given the proper PPE, it's really not fair. We wouldn't mind being there for the patients only if we were provided with PPE. The college has made it clear that if we are to contract covid-19 we are on our own, we don't have medical we are just an asset im the nursing practice.
Nursing students are not covered by any insurance they are not employees or volunteers they're forced to attend or lose their academic record. That is dictatorship
Nursing student's are also human beings. If you send them to clinical during this Pandemic then the are also entitled to all the benefits that applies to professional nurses, and full PPE
Nursing covid patients at Helen Joseph with just a surgical masks and being told by lecturers that if hospital has no PPE it's not their problem.. we should go with the flow If we die it's not the colleges business. RIP!
Thank-you for raising the concerns,otherthing at college they don't care about us who is infected(sick) the only thing they worry about its hours that we supposed to pay back,they don't even sympathize with us instead they shoutbat us as if we did ask the virus .They don't respect us they are talking to us as small kids
Students are being put at risk of contracting corona virus, students have no medical aid and are not even entitled to compensation should they catch the disease. Students are told to work back hours in their own time
Our life are in danger
They need proper PPes thats all they asking for
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I truly stand against the victimisation of students. We as students sacrifice our lives to work in clinical facilities without being given the proper PPE, it's really not fair. We wouldn't mind being there for the patients only if we were provided with PPE. The college has made it clear that if we are to contract covid-19 we are on our own, we don't have medical we are just an asset im the nursing practice.