Danielle Larivee, a vice-president at the United Nurses of Alberta, said nurses are “very alarmed” by hospital transfers she said could negatively affect care and drive critical health-care workers from the province.
Like Parks, Larivee said the worry is the restructuring will lead to more bureaucracy and less co-ordination across the system.
“We’re not seeing any evidence at all to support the idea that this is about improving access to care, about improving services or even about saving money,” said Larivee in an interview.
“If we’re not saving money and not making care better, why are we doing it?”
Wow. Punishing nurses? Pushing nurses towards poverty?
These are probably the same people who won’t want to pay them on the private side either.
Chain reaction: less nurses. Less other healthcare staff. Less staff means more patients for each nurse. Which means crappier and more dangerous care.
Brilliant, these guys. Stellar long term goals too.