The creation of new roles can lead to replacing nurses with other psychiatric workers or empowering nurses for the work of others. It is essential that we are not infatuated with these discussions. The work, which includes all the benefits achieved by ANMF members in negotiations on nurses and midwives in the public sector (but not in a public psychiatric ward), is expected to be completed within the week from 14 September 2020. It was (and remains) the OPINION of the ANMF that patients in the emergency department are emergency patients and the nurses who are employed to provide emergency presentations are emergency department nurses, and the agreement on in-house nurses and midwives should apply. These circumstances could logically not lead emergencies or part of them to become, exclusively or primarily, a public psychiatric service. Normally, the next step would be to distribute the proposed 2020-2024 employment and midwifery contract to the workers concerned, and then vote to seek a majority in favour of the proposed agreement. The agreement would then have been the subject of an application for authorization from the Fair Work Commission and will become final seven days after that approval. There are mental health nurses who work in the emergency services and will continue to be covered by the mental health agreement, such as. B ECATT nurses because they are part of the employer`s mental health program.

The ANMF has confirmed this several times in writing to HACSU. The ANMF welcomes the many new nurses who join us through the public psychiatric services, the details of previous negotiations on the proposed occupational health and safety contract 2020-2024, the VHIA has accepted a slight change sought by the ANMF on the definition of the EBA of the registered nurse and the registered nurse. This amendment was intended to explain what the term, used exclusively or primarily in the provision of public mental health services, should serve to avoid future controversies over the application of the EBA. This was partly in the context of the Andrews government`s election commitment to create a number of “hubs” within the emergency services to improve early treatment and intervention for those who submit to emergencies in alcohol and other drug crisis (EDO) or emergency mental health. In order to prevent these multiple procedures from further delaying the 2020-2024 employment contract, ANMF has reached an agreement with HSU to resolve the dispute with HACSU before a full bank of the Fair Work Commission.