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Health
Duncan Murray

'Burnt out' nurses call for patient ratios

NSW nurses and midwives are striking again, calling for better staffing ratios in hospitals. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Newly-trained nurse Vanessa is fed up after less than a year in NSW's health system.

She regularly cares for six patients during a shift and sometimes as many as eight, despite union calls for nurse-to-patient ratios of no more than one to four on general wards.

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