Across Canada, many nurses have continued to care for more patients than what is considered safe practice
Nurses in Ontario and British Columbia say the western province’s plan to set minimum nurse-to-patient ratios could help burnt-out nurses elsewhere in Canada by encouraging more provinces to adopt similar measures expected to reduce workloads and increase patient safety.
Across the country, many nurses who were hailed as heroes early in the pandemic have continued to care for more patients than what is considered safe practice, said Linda Silas, president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions. “We will continue to push that are legislated. B.C. still made major progress that they’re working toward in the next three years.”
In hospitals, the proposed ratios would be set at one-to-one for critical-care patients on ventilators, one-to-two for unventilated critical-care patients or those needing high-dependency mental-health care, one-to-three for specialized care, one-to-four for in-patient and palliative care and one-to-five for rehabilitative care.
Those jurisdictions have had fewer work-related injuries, while quality of care has improved, said Gould, adding the B.C. plan would go further by also adopting minimum ratios in long-term and community-care facilities. “I am concerned. There’s no doubt about that. And government is concerned,” he said, adding he’s hoping nurses that left their jobs will return to workplaces that will be safer and offer better job satisfaction.
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