Nurses in Canada have sounded the alarm over ‘stretched’ and ‘unsafe’ emergency rooms, including one 25-year veteran nurse who decided to walk away from patient care despite a worsening nursing shortage
this week in an emergency department waiting room in Fredericton. A review process has begun into the death.
Lefebvre said the difficult decision to close services is a huge red flag. There aren't enough people to do the job safely, she claims. Her advice to Canadians heading to emergency in the coming weeks is to have a friend or relative accompany them to make sure they get seen if their condition suddenly worsens.
“Throughout the pandemic, health-care workers have worked – and continue to work – hard to provide the very best care they can under tremendously challenging circumstances, but what we’re now seeing is a health workforce that is no longer able to cover the cracks of a system that wasn’t built to handle this constant and mounting pressure,” he said. “Patient outcomes and the health workforce shortages will not improve if we simply continue pouring more money into a broken system.
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