Canadian healthcare workers call for major change: survey reports
Posted December 12, 2022 10:59 am.
In what’s being called an “uncensored survey,” healthcare workers in Canada are letting loose about the challenges they’re facing.
The Blu Ivy Group purposefully made the question simple and open: “What would you like to add about the state of healthcare in Canada?”
Respondents didn’t hold much back.
One doctor says chaos has been brewing for some time.
“It’s not the pandemic. This has been a long time coming — underfunding, burnout, poor efforts at retention, horrible working conditions and regulations, boomers retiring and getting sick,” they explained.
One nurse’s answer reinforces the same idea.
“It’s incredibly unsafe how the high rate of turnover has left a skeleton crew of novice nurses running traumas in a busy Emergency Department,” they said.
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Some healthcare workers had specific ideas for what needs to be done in order for things to improve.
A trend in several answers called for more frontline workers, and fewer administrative staff.
“I used to have three managers. Now there are well over 20 various managers and directors, and no one is held accountable,” one nurse explained. “It’s a horrifying top-heavy disaster and a huge waste of health care money.”
These survey results come after Canada’s premiers called for more healthcare funding nationwide, as well as a sit down with the prime minister to talk about action.
The survey, conducted from Sept. 26 to Oct. 5, interviewed over 350 healthcare workers ranging from nurses to doctors and several positions in between.
