People who work at St. Boniface Hospital are worried about impending staffing changes, especially in light of a recent medical error where the hospital circumcized the wrong baby boy.
It is still unclear how the incident happened and an internal investigation won't be complete for several weeks. The hospital now plans to cut more than 40 health-care aides and increase the number of nurses in order to increase the ratio of nurses per patient.
Registered Nurse Bev Giroux thinks that staff cuts to health-care aides will mean more mistakes.
"If we have to start washing people and feeding people and making beds and walking them and getting them up besides all of this work we have to do, it's impossible," she says. "They're going to have all these mistakes happening and were going to get plastered all over the paper again about all the mistakes we make.
"We're already strained, we're overworked and now they're saying that we're actually going to get one more RN on the floor. But, that's not really going to help if you're taking the aides away, because we really need them."
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More nurses, fewer aides for St. Boniface hospital [CBC Manitoba,Canada]
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