Fourth-year nursing students who are currently working as interns in hospitals are set to be paid more, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has confirmed.
In an update to its student members the INMO said that the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive had clarified that fourth-year interns, who were earning less than Healthcare Assistants (HCAs), will now be paid on the HCA salary scale.
The HCA salary scale starts at €13.82 per hour. First, second and third-year students, whose placements were cancelled, were already entitled to apply to work as HCAs, and part of that work would count towards their clinical placement hours.
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