MORTALITY rates will increase and patients will spend longer in hospital unless the NSW government introduces set patient to nurse ratios, nurses say.
About 200 members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) protested outside parliament in Sydney on Tuesday, demanding the government pass laws ensuring there are four nurses to every patient in hospital.
The ratios are in place in some metropolitan hospitals but rural nurses are worried their workload will soon overwhelm their ability to properly care for patients.
Hospital patients need 18 hours of care per day and this can only be achieved in rural areas if the ratios are implemented, Kristen King, a 50-year-old nurse from Forbes, said at the protest.
If ratios aren't brought in nurses will be too busy to properly care for all patients, she said.
"They can deteriorate while you're not there," Ms King told AAP.
"If the nurses are around and looking after them then hopefully they don't deteriorate ... where you're off doing something else."
Not having sufficient staff increases the length of hospital stays and will raise mortality rates by about 9 per cent, she said.
"If the government cares about patients then they will give us the ratios," she added.
The NSWNMA is also asking for a 2.5 per cent pay increase.
"It's just going to keep us in line with inflation," Ms King said.
All bar one of the 215 branches of the NSWNMA voted in favour of campaigning to improve nurse to patient ratios.
Letters from branch members across NSW demanding the implementation of the four to one ratio will be delivered to the government later on Tuesday.
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