Ms Grace Murphy:

I thank the chairman for the opportunity to contribute. I am glad to have been given the opportunity to have four years of training. It is top class training and much emphasis is put on making sure we are competent when we come out of interns as graduate nurses. Much emphasis is put on competence yet we are released into a health care environment where we are not allowed use that clinical judgment to work in a safe environment. I would like to know there is a future beyond those four years of training where I can work in a safe hospital with reliable colleagues who are no so burned out and stressed that we cannot do the job for which we have been trained.

I would like a future and to take these four years of study and continue to work in the hospital where I have trained rather than to have to emigrate to the NHS or beyond.