A New report The Ford is calling the government to pass the law that will implement a nurse-to-rage ratio, arguing that it will not only save life and millions of dollars, but will also improve the patient’s care and stop the essential Ontario nurses essential from running away from the profession due to the burnout.
In the report by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions-Canadian Union of Public Employees (Ochu-Cups), cite examples of other courts, who have implemented the ratio to great success.
Dr. Jim Brophy, one of the researchers and co-writers of the study say that Ontario should join the growing trend before too long.
“Ontario has the lowest patient-to-nurse ratio across the country,” he said during an interview with breakfast television on Tuesday morning. “Our funding per capita is the lowest in any province.”
“We have a serious crisis between nurses.”
Brophy noted that California was the first to pass the nurse-to-rage ratio law about 20 years ago, which was after two states of Australia a decade ago.
In Canada, British Columbia has since passed the law, while Nova Scotia has cooked it in some of the current nursing contracts and Manitoba is currently studying the issue.
Brophy said that where there is a compulsory ratio in courts, there is also a decrease in the deaths of the patient, there are less hospitals, low infections in the hospital, a decrease in hospital, and savings in savings.
“It is starting to set fire across the country, because nurses, every time they vote, they are talking about the crisis they are, the level of burnout and the desire to leave the profession.”
“After the survey, the survey shows that about half nurses in Ontario are thinking about leaving the profession,” he said. “And we have a huge retention problem. We need something like 33,000 new nurses within the next two years and half the nurses are thinking that they no longer want to live there.”
Brophy says that nurses are very concerned and concerned about not being able to take care of their patients properly.
“The anxiety facing the moral crisis (nurse) is very high … any day they do not know how many patients they are going, and the risk of mortality increases for every additional patient.
“So that you are afraid that in any way you can harm the person you are taking care of because you were not able to get that person, there is a huge burden for these people who are committed to their work.”
The Health Minister has reached Sylvia Jones, and waiting for a response to ask about the city’s study and its findings.
Investment of $ 56.8 million to expand Ontario Nursing Nomination
Last week the province announced that it was Investment of $ 56.8 million to train 2,200 additional nurses.
“Nurses are an integral part of Ontario’s health care system, providing life -saving and compassionate care when patients are most required,” said Nolan Quinn, “colleges, universities, research excellence and security minister Nolan Quinn.
“Our government continues to expand nursing enrollment in our colleges and universities to ensure that we are building health care workforce, we need to protect Ontario health care and ensure that people can continue using excellent care close to home.”
Ontario also announced that this personal aid is “expanding registration in innovative, flexible online nursing training to pursue their education to workers and registered practical nurses.”
In June, Ontario announced that he was expanding his nursing workforce $ 4.2 million investment To accelerate nursing programs and add seats to rural and northern programs.
Caren Ceolin and Canadian Press with files