Pay student nurses for placement hours.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

being a student nurse is a real struggle, and being a student nurse, having to work 37.5 hours a week and paid nothing, is even harder. As a student we need to make up 2,300 clinical hours of hospital hours, as stated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, so that we can join the register.

Bursaries for nurses have been scrapped. Many of us are working part time, some even full time hours, as well as the 37.5 hours of placement, just to get some money coming in. A lot has been said about mental Heath recently, the number of suicides in universities is rising. These statistic resonate with me because the amount of work I do to get by is a big strain on my mental health, the stress, the financial worry, the lack of rest. So I’m calling for a minimum living wage for student nurses.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Pay healthcare students a wage while on placement

Timeline

25 Jul 2018	Petition opened for signatures
31 Jul 2018	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 31 Jul 2018

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