Alberta Health Services

The premier, Ed Stelmach, is going to have his leadership reviewed on November 7 and the sense is that it will be found wanting... REALLY wanting. The leadership review is the one chance the MLAs have to express their opinions on what's been happening with complete anonymity. Ralph Klein has told Ed that if his approval rating is less than 70% then he's obliged to step down. Going by the comments posted to the Edmonton Journal's and Calgary Herald's online editions, and other comments I've heard and read about constituents' complaints to their MLAs I'd predict it will be far below 70%... Stay tuned!

He'll squirm & slime his way out of it - like all the others! I can't believe Liepert hasn't had the hounds baying for his life!! He would have been forced to step down in the UK for sure. NOT that I'm saying for a minute the UK is any better but we do have a tradition of leaders who, when they know they've messed up big time, doing the honourable thing. Liepert & Stelmach should be 1st in line!!

RNs from Edmonton please explain

Is there a nursing shortage on your units, I know they don't hire ext applicants, so are there enough nurses or you have to work overtimes. Is it gonna change soon, do you know? I cannot believe, you said there were a hundred jobs posted
few months ago, so were the hospitals hire unnecessarily, if the casuals go for part-full time, are the casual positions open?


Just passed the test, and had to move to Edmonton cause of husbands's job, I'm staying home with my baby but in a few months I need to look for a job. Don't know what to think. It is hard to move again, but I really want to work. I'm sure many people understand.

Thank you

Thank you

Seems like we are gonna pack again(

On our unit we have 34 vacancies. Yes, I said THIRTY-FOUR. None of them will be filled. The nature of our unit is such that they have to approve at least some overtime. Most of our shifts are staffed with about 35-33% OT right now. Some shifts are filled with straight time but very few. We don't have many casuals who are willing to work 12 hour shifts and there's a ban on 8 hour shifts on our unit, so the casuals just don't bother picking up on our unit. So we either have a lot of people in on OT or we work short. Even when we have lots of OT we work short. And our management is poor at predicting what might happen on the next shift or the shift after that so they often cancel some of the OT and then we work REALLY short.

Dr Duckett is still talking about layoffs if his voluntary exit program fails to produce the expected number of retirements. Since the deal is such a pale imitation of the one offered to those out of scope and to management personnel, I don't think there will be that many willing to walk away for a few $1000.

I looked at the Edmonton zone job listings the other day and there are very few positions posted. Only a couple were open to the public and they were small part times. Mr Stelmach's leadership review came out in his favour, or rather NOT in favour of a leadership change, so the current "plan" for health care will continue unchecked.

Thank you janfrn, I'm learning something new every time i read through the posts.

Not all of it make sense to me, but i'm young, beautiful and just passed an exam and there is a perfect job offer waiting for me, and.........................it feels much better to think like that)))))))))))

Best wishes

This is off topic, but is Duckett or however it is spelled really an M.D.?

Maybe when he makes Alberta as bad as Ontario, people will vote him out.

Just one more question for Janfrn, where is the nurses union?