NPAQ Nurses Professional Association of Queensland

24/07/2025

🚨 Gladstone ED is in crisis. Nurses are pleading for help.

🔹 Patients with chest pain left in waiting rooms.
🔹 Life-saving medications given in unmonitored spaces.
🔹 Mental health patients confined over 7 days in small, stimulus-deprived cubicles.
🔹 Senior nurses forced to triage, supervise juniors, manage QAS/QPS arrivals on their own.

And yet, hospital executives say “everything’s fine.”
We say: listen to the people living it.

💬 Share your story. Stand with the frontline.
📧 hotline@redunion.com.au

23/07/2025

🚨 THEY’RE SAYING NURSES ARE LYING. WE SAY: ENOUGH. 🚨

Gladstone ED nurses have risked their careers to speak out. They’ve told the truth: about ramping, patient neglect, dangerous workloads, and systemic failures.

Now the government, the Department and the Hospital Executive says there’s no evidence. They’re not listening.

NPAQ president Kara Thomas said she was disappointed by the lack of response from the government.

“Gladstone nurses are raising the alarm because patients are being left in corridors, critical infusions are starting in unmonitored spaces, and mental health patients are languishing in EDs for days,” she said.

“Premier Crisafulli claims to be listening to frontline workers but we’ve sent letter after letter from nurses on the ground and received nothing from him in return.”

💬 If you’ve seen it too—if you’ve lived it—tell your story.
📧 Email us confidentially at hotline@redunion.com.au

🩺 You are not alone. You are not powerless.
🛑 Stop the gaslighting.
📢 We believe nurses. Do you?

https://hubs.la/Q03ypv_t0

Paramedics are being forced to leave patients with chest pains and in need of palliative care unmonitored at hospitals in an effort to get back on the road and reduce ambulance ramping wait times, staff allege.

22/07/2025

🎥 WATCH THIS: Frontline nurses are speaking out. https://hubs.la/Q03ynV-h0

🚨 Meanwhile, the Minister and CQ Health’s Chief Executive categorically deny patients are being left in unmonitored spaces.

But nurses at Gladstone ED are saying it’s happening almost daily.
Patients with chest pain. Palliative care patients. Mental health patients waiting over 120 hours.

📣 So who are we supposed to believe? The executives behind a press release? Or the nurses standing in the chaos?

📧 If you’ve seen it too, tell us. Confidentially.
➡️ hotline@redunion.com.au

💥 We believe frontline nurses. We believe in truth.

12/07/2025

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06/07/2025

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04/07/2025

Nurses' Professional Association President Kara Thomas speaks on Radio 4BC about the issues affecting nurses in Queensland and across Australia.

The solution starts with reigning in the out of control bureaucracy, prioritising safety and allowing nurses to do what they were trained to do.

Part 3

03/07/2025

🚨 “Stashing patients” to dodge funding penalties isn’t reform—it’s dangerous data manipulation.
From overflow units used to hide 24hr breaches, to staff pressured to reclassify, "screen move" patients just to ‘stop the clock’, because "we need to work together for funding"—this is not safe healthcare. It’s a betrayal of professional standards.

📣 We’re hearing too many of these stories. If you’ve been told to manipulate data, rush discharges, or conceal care delays—we want to hear from you.

📧 Email hotline@redunion.com.au
Att: Kara

Your story could help expose the truth and protect patients.
https://hubs.la/Q03vL0760

Frontline emergency department medics across the state have been directed to turnover patients within 24 hours or hospital funding will be lost, sparking outrage from already overwhelmed doctors and nurses who say the “beat the clock” pressure will blow up patient care and encourage data conceal...

03/07/2025

🗳️ YES—You Get a Vote. YES—You’re Covered. YES—You’ll Get Backpay.

Queensland Health nurses and midwives: don’t buy the spin.

🚨 You have a legal right to vote on EB12.
It doesn’t matter who you’re with—Red Union members are 100% included.

📬 Ballot materials are sent to every Qld Health nurse and midwife, regardless of union membership. That's the law. That’s confirmed by Queensland Health itself. Read the full truth here: https://hubs.la/Q03vKYrG0

🛡️ Once certified, EB12 covers ALL nurses and midwives under the Award

💰 That means the pay rise, conditions, and backpay apply to YOU.

✅ Your vote matters.
✅ Your rights are protected.
✅ Your union is fighting lies with facts.

🔁 Share this with your team. Let’s drown out the fear with facts.
🩺 Ratios. Raises. Rights. Respect.

Nurses and midwives across Queensland Health are being misled about their rights under EB12. This article from NPAQ exposes the truth: all eligible staff can vote and will be covered—regardless of union membership. Know your rights, reject misinformation, and stand strong.

03/07/2025

Nurses' Professional Association President Kara Thomas speaks on Radio 4BC about the issues affecting nurses in Queensland and across Australia.

The solution starts with reigning in the out of control bureaucracy, prioritising safety and allowing nurses to do what they were trained to do.

Part 2

02/07/2025

🚨 They’re calling frontline workers liars. That’s not leadership — that’s a cover-up.

More than 100 nurses at Rockhampton and Gladstone hospitals have spoken up: mental health patients are being sedated and acute patients are being stashed in short-stay units or "screen moved" to dodge KPI breaches caused by bed block. That’s not care — that’s harm disguised as “efficiency.”

Yet Health Minister Tim Nicholls refuses to launch an independent inquiry. He says there’s “no credible evidence.” He trusts the same bureaucrats accused of pressuring staff to manipulate the data to assure the public it's not happening.

That’s not how truth is found — that’s how it’s buried.

We are not making this up. Nurses don’t whistleblow lightly. We come forward because patients are being mistreated and staff are being silenced and ignored.

🛑 This isn’t just bad politics — it’s moral failure.

📣 If you’ve seen this happening — if you’ve been pressured to manipulate records, or witnessed sedation used as a result of bed block, or adverse outcomes due to overcrowding — we want to hear from you. Your voice matters. You will be heard.

📧 Share your story: hotline@redunion.com.au or call 1300 263 374 and ask to speak with Kara NPAQ President

We fight for patients. We protect our colleagues.We demand Ratios. Rights. Respect. (https://hubs.la/Q03vzbBg0 )

The state government has refused to launch an independent inquiry into shocking allegations of data manipulation and unnecessary sedation of mental health patients in Queensland hospitals.

02/07/2025

Nurses' Professional Association President Kara Thomas speaks on Radio 4BC about the issues affecting nurses in Queensland and across Australia.

The solution starts with reigning in the out of control bureaucracy, prioritising safety and allowing nurses to do what they were trained to do.

Part 1

30/06/2025

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