The nurses at this care facility are exhausted from the difficult working conditions during the holiday season. We cannot go on like this day after daysaid in an interview Sonia Fittante, nurse in the emergency room.

She deplores the deteriorating working conditions of nurses who are threatening to leave their shift unless a solution is found to improve a situation they describe as unbearable.

According to Ms. Fittante, however, these conditions have an impact on the quality of patient care, but also on the health of caregivers.

” What should be done to solve this problem? Whether there is a death, an accident, or a nurse giving the wrong medication? »

Ms. Fittante explains that she and her colleagues have twice as many tasks to complete every day because of the traffic.

On the day shift we struggle to do the job of two all the time [personnes]. We’re doing it to help a circumcised colleagueShe explains.

staff shortage

According to Carl Boisvert, spokesman for the CIUSSS East of the island of Montreal, the lack of staff not only overwhelms the Santa Cabrini hospital, but the entire health network in Quebec. The coverage rate at Santa Cabrini Hospital today is 113%, well below many hospitals in the provincehe mentioned via email.

Mr. Boisvert ensures that the CIUSSS exert effort important to reduce clinical pressure and increase hospital capacity, which he says has already halved the number of hospitalized patients who no longer need urgent care.

Besides the CIUSSS forwards as many patients as possible to outpatient services who come to the emergency room and whose state of health allows them to be forwardedadded the speaker.

For its part, Urgences-santé has mentioned that so far there has been no service interruption and that the ambulances are continuing to head towards the Santa Cabrini hospital. However, there is always a risk of emergency closure.

It happened at Hawkesbury General Hospital on Friday (HGH), in eastern Ontario. The management of this facility therefore announced on Friday evening that the emergency room would be temporarily closed until January 3rd.

The reason for the closure is the high volume and lack of nursing staff. […] Currently theHGH does not have sufficient staff to provide the required emergency room servicewe explained.

The situation is also critical in Drummondville, where the emergency room at Sainte Croix Hospital was reported a stretcher utilization of 168% Friday.

in Estrie, the occupancy rate of the emergency room was around 100% Friday, while that of the province was 114%.

With information from Charlotte Dumoulin