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The Queensland Nurses and Midwives’ Union has called for better working conditions and increased health funding, days after the Queensland government celebrated additional frontline staff, and a video of a nurse taking down an aggressive patient went viral.

Of 8000 QNMU members recently surveyed, 82 per cent reported experiencing violence at work. Exposure to racism had also increased since their last survey.

Kat, a senior nurse who spoke to the media outside the QNMU annual conference but asked for her surname not…

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