Hospitals in smaller and rural Ontario communities have been recruiting, training, and poring over schedules in the hopes of avoiding another summer wave of temporary ER closures—though the problem never really went away. Staffing shortages led hospitals to close their emergency departments for hours or even days at a time during the summer of 2022….
‘Action Needed on Staffing’ After Day-Long Nurse Shifts, Union Says
Nurses working 24-hour shifts at a major Western Australia (WA) hospital demonstrates the risks facing staff and patients in the public health system amid ongoing staffing pressures, a union says. Unplanned sick leave and an exceptionally high number of intensive care patients on May 17 forced Perth’s Fiona Stanley Hospital to call for staff to work…
IN-DEPTH: America’s Nurses are Burnt Out and Ready to Quit—Hospitals Nationwide Brace for Shortages
Jay Cuesta grew up planning to go to medical school. Then, in 2000, his premature infant died at just two weeks old, and Cuesta’s vision for the future was realigned. Cuesta told The Epoch Times that nurses were beside him and his wife throughout their ordeal. Nurses were beside them when the child they knew…
Ontario Will Be Short 30,000 Nurses and Care Aides in Next 5 Years, With $21.3 Billion Health Care Budget Shortfall: Watchdog Report
A new report predicts Ontario will have a shortfall of 33,000 nurses and personal health care aides, and be short $21.3 billion to cover health care costs in the next five years. The province’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) released a special health care report on March 8, suggesting the province’s health spending plan “will not…
Government Should Open Immigration Channels for the Aged Care Industry: Report
Australia’s shortage of aged care workers has doubled to 35,000 in less than a year, according to a new report, which recommends that the government attracts overseas immigrants into the industry. The ‘Duty of care: Aged Care Sector in Crisis’ report released by The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) on June 28 shows that government inaction and…
Anaheim Nurses Protest for Better Working Conditions as Hospital Becomes Overrun
February 14, 2022
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ANAHEIM, Calif.—As staff shortage continues to be a problem at hospitals, registered nurses experiencing “moral distress” picketed outside West Anaheim Medical Center on Feb. 14 demanding better work conditions. About a dozen or so healthcare workers were standing at the corner of South Beach Boulevard and West Orange Avenue with signs reading, “Patients First in…
Increasing Number of Nurses Quitting Hospital System in Massachusetts
As Massachusetts hospitals continue to hand out red slips to nurses for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine, members of the state’s largest nursing association gave testimony to lawmakers about escalating job pressures that have prompted an alarming number of nurses to quit. “Morale is low, burnout is high, and many nurses are walking away…
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