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The creepy covert police state destroyed Canada. Who needs an $80k a year nurse who can save your life when you have plain clothed Super Cop making $165k a year?
It is only going to get worse in Canada. MUCH worse...
When the Clinton Public Hospital emergency department had to close its doors on the August long weekend because it didn't have enough nurses to operate, Holly Braecker was embarrassed.
"I mean, we work so hard, and it felt like we kind of let the community down that day," said Braecker, a registered nurse who, four years into her career, is one of the newer staff members in the small rural hospital about 80 kilometres north of London, Ont., near the shores of Lake Huron.
"You don't see emerg departments closing for a day. So for us to be kind of the first — well, that I've ever heard about — is embarrassing. That put us on the radar, and not in a good way."
With a small pool of six or seven registered nurses to pull from, the workload routinely spills over the four 12-hour shifts she and her colleagues are supposed to work each week. When White Coat, Black Art visited the hospital on Sept. 3,
Braecker had worked every day that week.
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Nurses' unions, labour economists and others have been sounding the alarm for years that the number of qualified nurses was already falling short of demand in Canada, especially given an aging population. They say the COVID-19 pandemic has only served to highlight and exacerbate the nursing shortage and that it's going to take strategic planning, incentives and a whole lot of effort to make work life more sustainable for nurses in order to build a bigger workforce.
It is only going to get worse in Canada. MUCH worse...
When the Clinton Public Hospital emergency department had to close its doors on the August long weekend because it didn't have enough nurses to operate, Holly Braecker was embarrassed.
"I mean, we work so hard, and it felt like we kind of let the community down that day," said Braecker, a registered nurse who, four years into her career, is one of the newer staff members in the small rural hospital about 80 kilometres north of London, Ont., near the shores of Lake Huron.
"You don't see emerg departments closing for a day. So for us to be kind of the first — well, that I've ever heard about — is embarrassing. That put us on the radar, and not in a good way."
With a small pool of six or seven registered nurses to pull from, the workload routinely spills over the four 12-hour shifts she and her colleagues are supposed to work each week. When White Coat, Black Art visited the hospital on Sept. 3,
Braecker had worked every day that week.
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A failure to plan
Nurses' unions, labour economists and others have been sounding the alarm for years that the number of qualified nurses was already falling short of demand in Canada, especially given an aging population. They say the COVID-19 pandemic has only served to highlight and exacerbate the nursing shortage and that it's going to take strategic planning, incentives and a whole lot of effort to make work life more sustainable for nurses in order to build a bigger workforce.
