700 front-line nurse and health-care worker positions <\/a>cut since January 2025.<\/p>\n\u201cThis government is doing nothing to improve the situation,\u201d said Ariss. \u201cInstead, they\u2019re trying to balance their books on the backs of registered nurses (RNs) in this province.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ontario Health Minister\u2019s office did not respond to CTV News\u2019 request for comment by deadline.<\/p>\n
B.C., Nova Scotia heading \u2018in the right direction,\u2019 but violence an ongoing issue<\/p>\n
The scathing criticism from ONA comes as other provinces\u2019 nursing unions say their provincial governments have improved working conditions for their staff — although there are still some gaps to fill.<\/p>\n
In Nova Scotia, the nurses\u2019 union says the province committed to implementing a program about five years ago that guarantees a nursing job in Nova Scotia to all graduates from provincial nursing programs \u2014 and has resulted in the province heading \u2018in the right direction.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s working, our new grads know that when they graduate, they will have a full-time job in the province where they got their education,\u201c said Janet Hazelton in a Zoom interview with CTV News Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have less vacancies now than we had in 2021, which is good — because our new grads are not getting anxious about where they\u2019re going to be because they have student loans, they have debt –and so they\u2019re not looking to go elsewhere, they know that there will be a job in Nova Scotia. \u201d<\/p>\n
Nova Scotia also negotiated minimum nurse-to-patient ratios \u2014 which allow nurses to have only a certain number of patients under their care at any given time, a measure British Columbia has also implemented.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen that standard is upheld, patients actually get better care, they get safer care. There is less opportunity for negative health outcomes, including mortality rates,\u201d said Adriane Gear, the president of the B.C. Nurses\u2019 Union in an interview with CTV News Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cNurses in Ontario are graduating from nursing in university and they are unable to get jobs, which is shocking,\u201d said Ariss. \u201cOntario is also one of the only provinces that is not committed to nurse-to-patient ratios …<\/p>\n
\u201cOntario is going to further hemorrhage nurses to other provinces because of their lack of commitment to nursing and their lack of commitment to patients.\u201d<\/p>\n
One thing both provinces say they are still contending with is a growing amount of violence against nurses.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne nurse goes off every 16 hours on a WorkSafeBC claim due to violence,\u201d said Gear. \u201cAnd that doesn\u2019t account for all the assaults and aggression and violence that nurses experience that may not necessitate a time loss claim,\u201d said Gear, who believes an increase in severe mental health issues may be contributing to the growing violence against nurses.<\/p>\n
While Nova Scotia has implemented metal detectors at hospitals that use artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
\u201cOftentimes, patients will have brought in knives and other things with them when they\u2019re admitted to hospital or family members have them,\u201d said Hazelton. \u201cSo now they\u2019ll be asked to remove them. They won\u2019t be permitted in our buildings with them — it\u2019s reassuring.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s largest research and teaching hospital network, based in Toronto, has cut another 28 registered nursing positions, most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-554570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}