Ont. Premier Doug Ford takes questions from reporters about the crisis impacting hospital staffing across the province.
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I’ve heard that a lot of nurses and doctors are fed up with hospital administration. It seems to be a top down trickle effect when funding gets distributed and most of the money stays up top with administration and in turn they pile on more paperwork and protocols for nurses and doctors to follow.
We have an inverted pyramid healthcare system. Fire all the administrators and bureaucrats, if other European nations can have a functioning healthcare system with a fraction of the administrative staff we should do the same. More money to doctors and nurses, less dead weight.
@Saulus we don’t have IT. 😂
T’was ever thus…..
Yep. Need to get rid of the highly paid chairwarmers and get more nurses and doctors.
Fix Healthcare? They can’t even have decent audio!
Ask crooks to fix the rules…..
Is that the same kind of work you said you’d do getting Air Conditioning in Senior Citizen Homes? Bla, Bla, Bla.
Are you going to hire back all the medical professionals you let go?
Cause we’re all laughing at you now from the couch! How’s that all working out for ya? 😂
Who is “we”? Are you a Healthcare worker?
Nope they were talking on the radio that they are clearing the way for foreign nurses to be able to work.
*Got to give favors to get votes* 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Maybe you shouldn’t have fired a bunch of them
Retention bonus is a bogus. $2500 was released in June. Nurses only received $1100 net. Rest of money goes back to federal and provincial tax.
my wife recieved the full $5000. except that after taxes and deductibles it was only $2400
Yes. the tax rate is very strong disincentive in itself. TAX TAX TAX. The government takes half and then uses inflation to take the rest.
They printed that money out of thin air… So it will have to be collected in tax and inflation.
All bonuses are taxed including mine. Unless your employer is paying it out in cash it will be taxed. I don’t work because of my bonus, I work for my wage. Bonuses are exactly that, a bonus.
Noticed also that he’s trying to twist reality. He’s referring to this one time payment as a 7% raise. If it’s only given once it’s not a raise in pay. But he’s hoping that the public just doesn’t see that.
Why would anyone want to be a temporary worker till this fall when they bring the mandates back.
If you don’t believe in science you should not be working in a hospital
@Mom Tur “the science” LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
@Mom Tur I don’t believe in “the science” that has made a mockery of science.
@Mom Tur I see you think you “believe in” science, but I wonder if you understand even the most basic concepts in the sciences. What I’m hearing when you say “believe in science” is actually “blindly follow authority without question”. But, I do have questions: I have a lot of them.
9/10 patients are taken care of in ER after waiting more than 4hrs in waiting room. Waiting room full of patients from sick baby to elderly age 90’s. from homeless person to intoxicated yelling and screaming, from incarcerated person to person with acute psychosis. Some verbally abuse triage nurse for the long wait. would like to see politicians wait in such waiting room to get care.
9/10 patents are taken care of by the doctors and nurses of the ER, the other 1/10 is taken care of by the hospital mortician.
So at the end (no pun intended) it all adds up.
@OssamabinKenny And if you visit the hospital 10 times…
Don’t forget Bill 124, which caps many public sector wages (including nurses and other hospital staff) to 1% increase per year.
Overworked, stressed out, and facing a government enforced virtual pay freeze.
Yup, need to hire more so health care workers have better work/life balance. Work on brining in experienced/skilled immigrants and promote education in this area while guaranteeing jobs for x years.
Exactly. This was his design. This is his crisis that he did on purpose
@J R they need to retain the ones they have by paying them an appropriate wage.
@Miss B Really? Then why is this same problem with healthcare workers happening all over the world right now?
@Dany Heatley any idea what they make in average?
0 confidence he’ll do anything. Healthcare has been struggling for a while, the pandemic would have been the perfect time to step up & do something but it’s like he’s allergic to the Healthcare field.
Canadian born and raised but did my nurses training in Germany before working there on ICU for 5 years. They made the process so hard and costly for me to be able to register here that I gave up and decided to invest the time building our family.
Ironically my mother who has the exact same training as I is allowed to work on the stroke unit because she registered 23 years ago. She trains students.
Great example
my sister quit nursing because she didn’t want forced medical procedures
@Nucky Gulliver so did my mum, she didn’t quit per say but went into early retirement
@HalinaThor I’m thinking of studying in Germany in the area of nursing and mental health. Can you share how you made the process to study and work in Germany? Greetings from B.C.!
@Jean C M hey! I’m from BC originally but recently moved to Nova Scotia. I wish I could give you sound advise but for me it was pretty straight forward because my mother is german and I speak the language. All my family are in healthcare at the same hospital so I had quite a few contacts.
What I would suggest though is going for a bachelor of science. I have a diploma (Ausbildung) which is an RN qualification not achieved through a university degree.
Self inflicted crisis… now they need to “fix” it. Our healthcare system really sucks… now it sucks even more. Bottom line is don’t get sick!
And if you do, don’t go to the hospital.
I’m old enough to remember when Doug Ford caused the crisis.
We have the same problems in quebec.
I guess those who remembered Mike Harris’s “repair” of our health-care have all passed from lack of medical care.
The problem is that all the Health Boards are sat with Corporate Lobbyists, Pharmaceutical representatives and political favors. Not Doctors, Nurses and Engineers.
That’s why I avoid them at all costs.
Helped along by our neighbours
So we waited for Doug Ford’s press conference only to hear him say he doesn’t know what to do. Well done.
Doug Ford poo his poo now he’s cleaning up his own poo
He’s never clean
Well, maybe if the clot shots werent forced for healthcare workers, then maybe you wouldnt be in a crisis 🤷♀
Over 30,000 nurses waiting to be certified coming from other countries, and thousands of medical staff that can’t work because they’re unvaccinated. I wonder where you can find relief for those working so hard right now? I wonder if admin is still a problem?
I’m a transporters workers… Moving overs 24 pts a day,,, walk 18km 5 days a week,, we are suffering,, thanks for your help..
The unvaccinated nurses are very few. Health care work is anyone in a hospital. My hospital lost a dishwasher.. 6 hour course. The problem is the level of education, pay and unsafe workloads. Bill 124 that Doug Ford put in place and refused to lift during a pandemic highlighting nurses actually skills. Nurses never get pay raises on par with police or firemen… Why? Women’s work isn’t valued in 2022 even though the education requirements is higher, workloads heavier, call bells that never stop, disrespectful/aggressive patients with no consequences, pay for parking 14$/day, uniforms , insurance and CNO nursing license yearly. Once we started treating nurses like our Male essential workers the nursing shortage will continue. In Ontario women make 30% less then men. University graduates 55% women-45%men.. But men make more.. Nurses aren’t stupid and won’t work under these conditions risking there licenses or mental health.. Most can work away from beside making more money M-F..
@Robin B You know there are male nurses too right?
“ like our Male essential ”
Women can drive semis and be electricians too.
Hire back the qualified, experienced staff that were put on administrative leave with no pay. Problem solved. Oh, and fire all the managers and special interest board members.
Shortage has nothing to do with immunizations.
“Hospitals across Ontario are facing severe staff shortages. The staff shortages, combined with the ongoing pandemic, are forcing emergency rooms across the province to close. A group of Ontario nurses are urging the government to take action to stop nurses leaving the profession by repealing Bill 124, which caps nurses’ wage increases at 1%. ” It’s no wonder nurses are leaving the profession in droves. Your goverment has severely underfunded nursing and hospitals in general, and your solution is to bring in nurses from overseas? Get Serious Ford
More than hospitals need to be “worked with”. The entire health system needs to be unified and stream lined.