As Ontario nurses begin contract negotiations, a former ER nurse weighs in on privatization, Bill 124 and critical staff shortages
to perform low-risk procedures like cataract surgeries and MRIs. The premier claims that both measures will help address staffing shortages and ballooning surgical backlogs.“This is just another example of a total lack of respect for health care workers in general and nurses in particular,” says Amie Archibald-Varley, an RN who left her role at Niagara Health last November after working in emergency rooms throughout most of the pandemic.
I don’t know whom Doug Ford is speaking to right now, but it’s definitely not nurses. If it was, they would tell him that what he’s saying doesn’t make sense. The surgical backlog that has amassed during the pandemic is a major crisis, but the problem isn’t a lack of space—it’s a lack of staff. There’s plenty of existing space in Ontario’s public hospitals. Most of the operating rooms in the province are booked from around 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
People hear that staffing shortages mean corners are being cut, but what does that actually look like on the ground? Amie Archibald-Varley says nurses will leave the public system to work at for-profit clinics if their working conditions and wages don’t improve I am all for anything that increases the labour force, but in this case, it’s a bit like using your Visa to pay off your Mastercard. The medical staffing crisis is national—I was out in Saskatchewan recently, speaking to a group of nurses about how to turn health care advocacy into action, and their stories were the same.I think nurses would like to feel like their government isn’t actively working to undermine us or deny what we have gone through over the past few years.
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