Wednesday, December 15, 1999

Laurel Baker
News Review contributor

Nurses throughout the
province’ — including
nurses -here at Saanich
Peninsula Hospital — want
to raise public awareness
about the nursing shortage.

“In the Capital Health Re-
gion within the. next five
years, 30 per cent of all reg-
istered nurses will be eligi-
ble for retirement. That’s a.
pretty significant situation,”
said Gloria Proia, the stew-
ard coordinator for the
British Columbia Nurses
Union for SPH.

“And nursing school
openings haven't. been. in-
creased in the last few
years.”

Andrew
spokesperson for the Capi-
tal Health Region, agrees.

“Everything you. hear

~ about. not enough nurses
coming through nursing
_ schools.is:. very. -real;”. he
said. “There are not enough

_-hurses_ with. critical care.
a skills. Pere

_, But. Proia sees the prob-
--lem’as being even larger:
ethan that.e::

ioe eT he: employers: are: talk o
“ing about ways to solve the

~ hursing, shortages, and one “processing people. through |

“emergency. .
“A lot of the problems i in.
‘health care manifest them-:

of: ‘those. 2 Ways 1 is to train'less

qualified people to do nurs-

“ing jobs,” she said...
“We don’t feel that’s: nec-
essary. Nurses ‘want sup:
port staff.”
In recent years, major
cuts in health care have

meant reduced support staff

Mordan, a.

-— leaving nurses to pick up

various non-nursing duties
within hospitals.
“Provincially, with. the
shortage of nurses, we need
to be geared at doing direct
nursing duties and not non-
nursing duties,” Proia said.
These “non-nursing” du-

ties range from stocking

shelves, to clerical work, to
housekeeping, to_ testing
equipment.

In October,. nurses
around the province began
an on-going campaign to
identify the amount of time
spent doing “non-nursing
duties” that interfere with
providing quality care.

Once ‘these .

said nurses around the

province will approach man-
_ agement to work together

to find solutions.

She added that nurses
will also be involved in a for-
merly:: organized: BCNU
public awareness campaign

addressing the. nur sing .

shortage. This campaign

will likely take place i in the : ‘
ccspring.. 02
‘Inthe ieantime: “Mordan

“says the CHRis looking for

other solutions, such-as ex- |
-amining different ways of

‘selves in ER,” he said. “Peo--

backing up.’

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The CHR also wants to .

‘recruit more nurses. But,

finding recruits is no easy
task.

“If we have got a full-time
position that becomes avail-
able, it gets offered within
the region to all casual
nurses, and it goes to who-
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Mordan said. “It.gets filied
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the system are going to be
lower down.”
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making casual work avail-
able. We need to create reg-

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