A nurse whose six-year-old daughter was diagnosed with cancer and died six months later at her hospital has won a case against Queensland Health.
A nurse who was working at Queensland Children’s Hospital when her daughter was diagnosed with cancer and later died there has won an industrial dispute over the lack of support provided by her employer.
“My husband found himself compelled to undertake dual employment to sustain us financially, resulting in the forfeiture of irreplaceable moments with our terminally ill child, Ruby, who was undergoing daily palliative radiation treatment for her brain tumour and grappling with the loss of bodily functions.
Pringle, who also requested a transfer away from the hospital where her daughter died, had sought paid special leave from October 2022 to September 2023.She was retrospectively given paid special leave from January to March 2023, followed by unpaid leave, which Queensland Health Director-General Michael Walsh told her was “proportionate to your circumstances”.
McLennan said Walsh did not adequately consider Pringle’s circumstances, and wrongly sought to equate her situation with that of every other employee and their families, most of whom would have been healthy.
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