Staffing shortages, already exasperated by a hard-hitting flu season, means some staff, particularly in health care, are already being told to anticipate being mandated to work over the holidays.
With the flu and other respiratory illnesses like COVID-19 making the rounds on top of pre-existing personnel challenges, Earle says it’s not uncommon to hear of emergency and nursing units and student assistants working short of full complement; while corrections officers are being mandated to do 24-hour shifts on a regular basis.
Earle says emergency rooms and long-term care facilities can’t simply close. Visitation increases, putting extra pressure on staff that are already short, and exacerbating the problem further.
Perhaps if you controlled the power your senior nurses have in these facilities. This is what the younger generation have been telling me for years, with the old guard manipulating vacation times and durations so they can get better deals in vacation spots down south...
Yeah shortages because smart health care workers are at home because they won’t take the poison tell the truth
Nurses at Central Health only got their Xmas work schedule yesterday. Tell me how you can make plans with something run this bad. Nurses get treated like absolute shit in this province
Oh my god Jerry, because this just happened last night.
2 and a half years of Lockdowns and Mandates and Govt not bothering to understand the fact many are no doubt mentally and physically exhausted is inexcusable.
Maybe he shouldn’t have forced them to take the jab and they would not have left. Like the Doctors and Nurses. They created these shortages
This guy is not for the people he has a handler that dictates everything he says and does just like all the people in government and media.I see through him. He is only concerned for himself like all the rest . When he enforced the mandates I knew he was bad
Just getting concerned now ? December 14. This man is a over payed clown
is this twit still in charge of the union? he's a complete FAILURE that should have been forced to RESIGN by membership long ago. NAPE workers forced to take an EXPERIMENTAL vax that has now been shown beyong the shadow of a doubt to be a killer!
Our healthcare system has been in trouble for a long time, is it only now that he’s noticing this? I had to use an app to get a prescription for my diabetes meds. Not a doctor to save your life!
How many took early retirement, didn’t renew contract, or quit, prior to unpaid leave came into effect? NAPE successfully fought off influenza shot mandate years ago, but sided with the government, the employer, when needed this time. This is NAPE’s own doing.
Once again nape is lookijg for attention and is bitching and not offering solutions for a problem that’s existed for how long? Yes issue another media release that will fix wait times…nlpoli
Too late as usual Mr. Earle… and by the comments here, more and more people are starting to see through your fake concerns…
Extremely late on this one.. your actually asleep at the wheel.. Community emergencies are the threat also, parents/ Grandparents dropped off to spend Christmas in the ER with no long term beds available.. it’s not the Holiday Inn for sure. No wait that’s full of Newfie Ukrainian
jerry4nape is the man with no plan to help, just complain and wait for GovNL 🤣🤣
I think ppl were worried over staffing shortages for far longer than just the holiday season😩
We have the highest ratio of public servants per capita in Canada, but Earle is ALWAYS on here telling us how understaffed we are, in all departments. How bad is everywhere else?
The union is concerned? The public is dying for a solution!!
They sided with gov to cut staff over mRNA jabs - they caused the problem.