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Hospital’s quality of care about to take a hit

Re: Article “Nursing hours being cut: ONA,” which appeared in the March 19 edition.
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Re: Article “Nursing hours being cut: ONA,” which appeared in the March 19 edition.

Who in their right minds could possibly think that cancelling registered nursing positions and expecting personal support workers to safely replace them will work?

This is not to disrespect the many hard-working PSW employees, but when a person goes to college or university for four years to be a registered nurse, there has to be a difference in the nursing care that is provided.

Let’s face it, it’s all about money and budgets. The people in the position of power, will certainly not cut their own jobs or budgets, so it comes down to the factory floor, as it were.

But in this case we are not dealing with widgets, we are dealing with patients and their health care.

I would like a published report on how many managers there are in Health Sciences North. I think we would be amazed, and we would be shocked at the cost. But it appears that administration is never at risk of cuts.

But then again, why would the people in charge consider cutting their own jobs? I get that, but what I do not understand are the constant cuts to frontline workers.

We need a board at the hospital that has representation from all the different departments and not from people outside the hospital who just sit on the board for whatever perks there may be.

I am convinced this continued attack on our health system is a long-term plan to privatize our health system. When will we wake up and realize we are being controlled by the greedy people at the top of our society and the people at the bottom are the ones who are suffering?

With the continued cuts to the professional nurses, we can expect less quality care and consequently, a lot more patients feeling the effects from these cuts.

Any young person thinking of entering the nursing profession must surely be very concerned. They will be wondering if there will be any jobs for registered nurses and even if they manage to find a job, what kind of work environment will they have to endure.

We have some very caring, hard-working nurses who went into nursing because they thought it would be a rewarding profession, but just look at how the dismantling of our health care system will effect them.

I know that this problem is not just in Sudbury, and I can’t even think how to fix the problems, but maybe an investigation by an external consultancy company could find where the large sums of money are being bled from our hospitals.

David Jones
Hanmer