Registered practical nurses across Ontario working with COVID-19 patients are concerned about mistreatment, lack of respect, working long hours for low pay and…
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THUNDER BAY - Ashley MacRae, a registered practical nurse in the emergency department at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, said she and her fellow nurses worked in constant fear of what was coming through the door when the district was seeing a spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations throughout March and April.
“You feel unprepared every day with the unknown. I’ve seen my co-workers in stressful situations,” she said. “As our scope has increased, it has become more stressful to be at work. We are doing more with less and having more tasks than before. Sometimes giving my all is not enough.”
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As the second National Nurses Week of the COVID-19 pandemic comes to an end, some nurses say they are finding little to celebrate this year.
Nurses say they are exhausted, burned out, in need of more support and of better pay.
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“At the beginning of the pandemic we were heroes, everywhere there were rainbows and it was going to be OK. We went to zero really fast,” Ottawa registered practical nurse Melissa Viau said Friday.