The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses says this week has been a 'nightmare for staff,' adding that emergency rooms are still way over-capacity.
The union says staff are struggling to keep up with demand at the Royal University and St. Paul's hospitals.“When there’s too many patients in the unit itself, in the department, and then you add into it an overflowing waiting room and trying to care for people in hallways other than the rooms that are designed specifically for that, it creates safety issues,” said Denise Dick, the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses’ first vice-president.
“It’s causing a lot of moral distress for our members or for the nurses that work in these departments, because the numbers are so high, and nurses have been raising this concern for a long time,” Dick said.
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