Morale among Ontario health-care workers is deteriorating, according to a new report. The peer-reviewed study, released on Monday, found a growing staffing crisis is putting the well-being of hospital workers and patients at risk.
The peer-reviewed study, released on Monday, found a growing staffing crisis is putting the well-being of hospital workers and patients at risk."We heard about the daily fear hospital workers felt going to work and being unable to perform the duties of caring for their patients because of understaffing."
"There’s an irrefutable link between registered nurse burnout and poorer patient outcomes, and right now, we risk worsening shortages as faith in workplace support and commitment to fix the problem dwindles," Saskatchewan Union of Nurses president Tracy Zambory said at the time the results were released.
Other jurisdictions that have implemented minimum nurse-patient ratios, such as California and Australia, recorded promising results, according to BC Nurses’ Union vice president, Tristan Newby. A Federal Court judge has thrown out a convicted killer's challenge of a British Columbia prison warden's decision not to allow the inmate to have an electric guitar in his cell.The Canadian Civil Liberties Association says it’s intervening in a legal dispute over Saskatchewan’s controversial pronoun laws to prevent the “abuse” of the notwithstanding clause.If you're planning to leave Canada, there's a laundry list of things that need to be checked off.
R. Kelly petitions U.S. Supreme Court to overturn sex crimes convictions based on statute of limitations An Italian Olympic athlete lost his wedding ring at the opening ceremony. Here's his heartfelt apology to his wife She spent nearly 20 years working for the Vancouver Police Department, and now the woman at the centre of a lawsuit is speaking publicly about the threatening environment she claims to have experienced, and the alleged inaction of management.Last Thursday, Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon gave West Vancouver's mayor and council 30 days to change the city's bylaws to comply with new provincial regulations allowing for the construction of multiple units on all single family lots.
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