BUDGET CUTS ARE A KILLER
- Expect working hard and often skipping your breaks or leaving late.
- Hospital is increasingly busy but no new funds or resources are allocated for staff to help deal with the changes. As a result, nurses, lab techs, doctors, and pharmacists are working extra hard to maintain the quality of care and patient satisfaction at the cost of their own sanity. We're all en route to burnout.
- Closed budget friendly cafeteria that was popular among employees in favour of overpriced private restaurants. No more affordable healthy meal options available.
- Seniority rules all. Can't get a leave of absence without 5 years of seniority. Vacation and work schedule are scheduled by seniority. For a full-time position, one must usually work at least 5 years, on some units or clinics, 10 years.
- extra conservative staffing on weekends - because patients are less sick on weekends?!?
- The hospital invests in the infection prevention and control department more and more and yet bed coordinators and managers do not follow any infection control rules and protocols. Their priority is to unload the ER department and they will book any bed for any patient. They will say "a bed is a bed". And that is how outbreaks begin.
- Patients often come with high expectations of care and are frequently disappointed at how little attention they're paid or how slow their treatments progress. With good reason. But the ones who get most of that rage are nurses despite working so very hard.
