Winnipeg Free Press
As pandemic struck, nurses learning intensive care thrust into critical situations; province working to improve education
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As COVID-19 filled intensive care units, nurses new to the job were left to care for critically ill patients before their training was complete, nurses and the Opposition NDP say. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Just before the pandemic hit, training for critical care nurses was shortened in Manitoba.
Just before the pandemic hit, training for critical care nurses was shortened in Manitoba.
Now, amid concerns about a third wave and rapidly spreading variants of COVID-19 that are landing a higher proportion of Manitobans in intensive care, health officials say they’re trying to improve orientation for new nurses before they’re expected to start working with the sickest patients.