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Registered practical nurses (RPNs) in Northern Ontario are experiencing greater levels of anxiety, workplace violence, workload pressures and other negative impacts when compared to other RPNs across Ontario.
The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (OCHU/CUPE), in an online teleconference, released these finding this week and outlined in an RPN Members’ Survey.
As part of a Zoom news event to release the survey, the union called on some Northern Ontario nurses to comment.
Karen Brosseau, an RPN who has been working in Sudbury for 29 years, said she never thought she would have to work through SARS or the current COVID pandemic.
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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Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) in Northern Ontario are experiencing greater levels of anxiety, workplace violence, workload pressures and other negative impacts when compared to other RPNs across Ontario.
The details, outlined in an RPN Members’ Survey, were released Wednesday by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (OCHU/CUPE) in an online teleconference.
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Michael Hurley, president of OCHU/CUPE, said it shows action is required to improve the working conditions and pay levels for Ontario’s RPNs.