PHOTOS: Protest highlights B.C.’s ‘dire’ nurse staffing shortage
Hundreds of nurses in Vancouver for a B.C. Nurses Union conference marched along the streets of Vancouver Wednesday calling for safer staffing levels.
Hundreds of nurses in Vancouver for a B.C. Nurses Union conference marched along the streets of Vancouver Wednesday calling for safer staffing levels. Hundreds of nurses in Vancouver for a B.C. Nurses Union conference marched along the streets of Vancouver Wednesday calling for safer staffing levels.
Hundreds of nurses from across B.C. took to the streets of Downtown Vancouver Wednesday to hold the government accountable for minimum nurse-patient ratios. “The shortage has reached such dire levels that we regularly see temporary closures of emergency rooms in communities around B.C.”In April, the Nurses’ Bargaining Association and the province reached an agreement to implement minimum nurse-patient ratios across health-care settings, which has the promise to improve the staffing and practice conditions needed to keep nurses in the profession and improve patient care.
She said people come into the emergency department – where she works sometimes – knowing they will at some point get to see a doctor or nurse.
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