SYDNEY, N.S. — Registered nurses working at the emergency department at Cape Breton Regional Hospital are terrified. They are terrified that the staff ...
Nurses in the Cape Breton Regional Hospital emergency department are worried staff shortages are going to lead to someone dying in the waiting room.SYDNEY, N.S. — Registered nurses working at the emergency department at Cape Breton Regional Hospital are terrified.
"That hurts," said Dr. Margaret Fraser, an emergency department physician at the regional hospital whom the nurses asked to be their spokesperson. Dr. Margaret Fraser sits in her office at Health Park which is next to Cape Breton Regional Hospital. One of the emergency department physicians, she told the Cape Breton Post during an interview on Thursday that the nursing shortage on the unit is critical and the nurses are worried about patient safety and their livelihoods.
One clinical lead Fraser knows was forced to work 16 hours, then told she could"sleep in a call room" only if she returned to work in the unit if they needed her. "But because of their concerns about the staffing levels and their concerns about potentially losing their licence, either because of an adverse event or an administrator reports them for patient abandonment, most of them are looking for other jobs."
The administration is working on short-term strategies that can be implemented within a few weeks to help with patient care in the emergency department and MacDougall said they recently had a meeting with project leads in the Eastern Zone to discuss Cape Breton Regional Hospital department specifically.
"We do have a responsibility in a duty to care in relation to not leaving until the shift or a replacement is there and that comes from the college as well," he said."But obviously there's a fine line there between handing over a report or trying to create an opportunity for staff to have the availability to go home. That is something we have to follow up with."
Those triaged at level two are supposed to be seen within 15 minutes and re-triaged every 15 minutes. At level three, the standard is seen within 30 minutes and re-triaged every 30 minutes. For level four is seen in one hour and re-triaged hourly and for level five, the non-urgent cases, seen within two hours and re-triaged every two hours.
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