Nurse said ER ‘was way too busy’ to ‘deal with’ Winterstein, peer worker tells inquest<\/p>\n
Cronkwright says nursing staff will often tell peer support navigators what patients’ chief complaints are, but not share their medical records.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of the flags that may lead to a referral from a nurse is NFI (no fixed address) notations, he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That, addictions or mental health are also factors that bring in navigators to help patients, he says.<\/p>\n
“We are their friend in the ER who understands what they’re going through.”<\/p>\n
Inquest lawyer Vivian Sim asks him if he was in contact with Winterstein on Dec. 9, 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He says he was.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A nurse contacted him and brought him to triage, where Winterstein was in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n
“This nurse did state she [Winterstein] was a heroin addict. She said she wasn’t going to deal with this patient. The ER was way too busy.”<\/p>\n
He says he saw Winterstein post-discharge rather than post-triage as was the usual way. He was supposed to take her to the bus stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nurse said ER ‘was way too busy’ to ‘deal with’ Winterstein, peer worker tells inquest Cronkwright says nursing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-608497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608497","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=608497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}