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It also showed 72 per cent said there isn t enough staffing to provide quality patient care.
The surveys come as hospitals are facing capacity issues and staffing issues due to the pandemic s third wave.
Local hospitals have implemented intensive care unit (ICU) surge plans, shuffled staff and shuttered services to try to manage the influx of patients from in and out of the region. Hamilton Health Sciences has also been building a field hospital.
As of Tuesday, there are 135 COVID-19 patients in hospital and 62 in the ICU. There are also 23 infected hospital staff and 145 in self-isolation.
Nurses fighting for personal protective equipment
THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO – Pam Parks says she has a routine to pick herself up before she starts every one of her 12-hour hospital shifts these days.
The registered practical nurse drives the five minutes to work at an Oshawa, Ont., hospital with her car radio turned up and sings along in a bid to lift her spirits.
She tries to take her mind, ever so briefly, off the stress, uncertainty and large workload that awaits her in the emergency room that day, as the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic rages.
Even after 33 years in the profession, Parks said the pandemic has opened her eyes to the fragility of our health care system and the distress both she and her fellow nurses feel.
One of two new polls shows that more than half of those surveyed said they were coping poorly or extremely poorly at work over the past year of the pandemic. And 86 per cent said they believe the potential for medical errors has increased over the past 12 months.