Alberta Health Services

I am not saying that I know the politics their. It was just a mere suggestion from a third person point of view. I am just concerned that's all.

Here in Calgary they joke that you could put the bronze stautues near the centre of the city on the ballot paper as the Tory candidates & they would be voted in!

I have been working for CHR for 10 yrs. I have worked casual for 2 yrs.
I recently thought that I would go back since my love for nursing is serving in Acute care but was
told that there is a hiring freeze till 2011 in place. What the heck....
There is a new hospital going up in South Calgary due to open in 2010 and the brainiacs in CHR have decided to put in place a hiring freeze which doesn't even allow casual employees to take a permanent or PT line???
So my question is who didn't think this through?? HOw are you going to open a new hospital up and not hire any nurses??? Are just going to transfer nurses around so we can have a even shortage throughout the city??? SHould we just continue to employ the 70+ yr old RN's to run the show?????
Maybe lets make nursing a masters degree minumum instead of the degree to deal with such shortages.

Clearly the bean counters have private health insurance for themselves and their familes.

If they should get ill then they'll be off to a 5 star hotel/hospital with hot and cold running caviar, roast swan to eat and no nurse shortages...

They'd only ever do this to a healthcare system they've no intention of using...

I'm graduating with my BN in December and was just having a look through the AHS job postings. All of the RN positions I saw in Calgary were limited to "qualified internal Alberta Health Services candidates only". Does Duck-it think this will convince people there isn't a hiring freeze? Sure, job postings are going online again, but they're for internal applicants only, meaning an RN will leave one short-staffed unit for another. I was looking forward to returning home to Calgary to work, but it looks like I'll have to go elsewhere now.

jaylily, we're all really hoping that by December AHS will have smartened up and realized that there IS a personnel shortage and that moving the problem around isn't going to solve it. There are several information campaigns going on that hope to enlist public support for all health care professions.
http://www.friendsofmedicare.org/
http://www.nurses.ab.ca/Carna/index....ructureID=3843
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/st...ng-hiring.html
http://www.una.ab.ca/news/archive/Health%20care%20cuts

hah! my special nurses day pen ran out in less than a month and I only work 4 days/wk!!!!!

Apparently everything, all new hires need to be signed off by someone at the top...suppose it is duckett.

what is sickening is that when they put the superboard in place...they paid out millions to davis and weatherill. now, we hear that the superboard is 1 billion overbudget which is 10 times more than the regional boards racked up.

And now, they want to nickel and dime by cutting frontline workers!!!
I can tell u that at work (acute care hospital) it is pretty hard to find the actual staff
looking after your particular patient...because they are so stretched.

The patients admitted are supersick....requiring active management.
I may write a page and a half of orders on some of the patients....some orders requiring stat or urgent execution. Go figure...who do u think is going to do them?