Redeployment of ICU nurses to the ER is making things unsafe, nurse says
A nurse at Surrey Memorial Hospital is sounding the alarm over staffing issues they say make work unsafe.
BC Nurses' Union president Adriane Gear said she was made aware of a"very serious assault" on a nurse who required a neuro assessment. She could not confirm if it was the same incident. "If they know they're being floated , they're calling in sick," they said."Which then in turn has a knock-on effect, because now we're short in ICU." ICU and ER nurses have two different scopes of practice, the nurse said. An ER nurse's job is to stabilize the patient and"get them where they need to go," like to another unit or discharge them. The nurse described the ER as fast-paced, where the ICU is meticulous.
The charge nurse in the ICU often tells the clinical operations directors that it is not safe for them to give two nurses to the emergency. There is wording in the collective agreement on the requirements that the employer has to take to find staff, she noted. Gear said she suspects some nurses being deployed to the ER from other areas of the hospital may lack critical care skills.
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