ONA registered nurses (RNs) held multi-site rallies in Bracebridge and Huntsville on the weekend, calling for Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) leaders to refocus their efforts on retaining and recruiting RNs. In its press release, the Ontario Nurses’ Association states that staffing levels are imperative to ensure safe patient care.
“Our front-line RNs remain laser focused on healing the damage that inadequate nurse staffing levels have caused to patient care, as we have for more than a year,” states ONA Provincial President Erin Ariss, RN, in the release. “As RNs, nothing is more important than advocating for our patients, and we continue to do so at MAHC. Today, at rallies held in Bracebridge and Huntsville, we called on MAHC leaders to take every action necessary to successfully retain nurses and recruit additional nurses so patients can receive the safe, quality patient care they deserve.”
Ariss joined MAHC RNs, other ONA leaders, and other unions and allies from the Save South Muskoka Hospital group at the rallies. The nurses, among other demands, are calling for the restoration of every RN position eliminated in 2023. Positions presumably eliminated as MAHC prepares for
“We will accept nothing less than a fully staffed and fully restored organization,” says Ariss. “We will not back down in our fight for safe RN staffing and safe patient care for everyone in this region.”
ONA is the union representing 68,000 registered nurses and health-care professionals, as well as 18,000 nursing student affiliates, providing care in hospitals, long-term care facilities, public health, the community, clinics and industry.
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Of course the nurses are right. Life and death is the real point. Do what is right. Why are any demonstrations needed, why is all the talk required. Only health care workers should be making decisions about new hospitals , patient care , equipment, education, and everything involved not untrained medical personnel. All of this talk, government involvement is a stall. How many people will die due to all this talk?
I agree with the nurses. Hire back as many nurses as you can without having to get the vax. New science shows vax only good for 6 weeks anyway. I know more people who had a couple of the vax and were sick more times than the unvaxed. Hire back the nurses.