Spaces closed in QEH emergency department to manage staffing shortage
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital has closed at least a dozen beds in the emergency department this summer. The decision was made, because of a shortage of doctors and nurses to work.
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Posted: Jul 28, 2021 6:41 PM AT | Last Updated: July 28
Staffing levels at the QEH emergency department have been reduced from 13 nurses on day shifts to 10 and from eight nurses during overnight shifts to seven. (Shutterstock)
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Health PEI meetings about nurse vacancies in ER not a good faith discussion, says union
It does not appear that Health PEI is taking talks regarding filling registered nurse positions in the emergency department at Prince County Hospital seriously, says the P.E.I. Nurses’ Union.
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Liberal Sonny Gallant, top left, and Opposition leader Peter Bevan-Baker, bottom left, peppered Premier Dennis King, top right, and Health Minister Ernie Hudson, lower right, with questions about what they called government s privatization of mobile mental-health units. (P.E.I. Legislative Assembly)
A controversial change to the way the Prince Edward Island government plans to run a long-awaited mobile mental-health crisis service dominated question period in the provincial legislature Friday.
The province plans to have three mobile units one based in each of P.E.I. s counties able to respond to people experiencing a mental health crisis, along with a 24-hour phone line as a first point of contact for those in distress. The units will operate 12 hours a day, from noon until midnight, and are to be staffed by a mental health professional, a plain-clothes police officer and a paramedic.