Chief nursing officer appointed to deal with Canada's 'health-care crisis'

Leigh Chapman, a 20-year veteran of the profession, has been named chief nursing officer after the role was scrapped a decade ago. Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said Chapman's appointment will help deal with the 'health-care crisis' currently being felt across the country.

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[johnoliveira]

Fixing nursing issues by hiring more top heavy people.
That will fix things.

[ez]

Why didn't the health minister deal with this?

[CEOredgrad]

why is 'health-care crisis' in quotations. This absolutely is a crisis.

[armyfan]

Pay all nurses more that are in the field! More bonuses more benefits.. and reduce student tuition

[Paula]

The reporter asked what should this new chief nursing officer tackle first? One of the areas they need to tackle is nursing licensing. Every province has there own nursing license application there needs to be onc license for the entire country and each province has access to all the information they need for each nurse. The licensing bodies are not working together they are independent of each other.

[andylowell]

This healthcare crisis is not just nurses, it's technologists too. We face the same issues. No staff, heavily burdened skeleton staff.
95 percent of er visits require a
Xray, CT or ultrasound.

[cujo]

What an embarrassing circus our Healthcare system has become. Shame!

[gfutube]

Waste of money. Get the feds out of healthcare. This is provincial jurisdiction.

[jeffrorichard]

Is she going to allow and beg the unvaccinated nurse employees you just fired to cover the nurse shortage????

[creeder]

good thing she has a mask on... no surprise they lost all the workers from mandates!

[brandon]

Nursing is a provincial jurisdiction. Notice how it’s unions applauding this move not patients. The Feds need to get get out of the way, not hire another $250, 000 year figurehead.

[SpiceySpinster]

I have an idea. 6 hrs shifts at the same pay, plus double overtime pay, more vacation days, sick days and a 7% raise. That would be fair considering what they're dealing with.

[michael]

Oh look it started job creation, she just got is doomed.

[RNSHIVANI]

The registration process for Internationally Educated Nurses is taking too much time like 12 Month or more.Need to develop some strategies lime Australia did to speed up this process.

[mariannacervantesring]

A lot of this would have been avoided (and this can be alleviated in the future) if the education to be a nurse or doctor was affordable for more people. The time and financial cost of this education is a deterrent to many, not to mention that the educational process may be opaque for those who don't have advice or input from someone already in medicine.

[bryanmitchell]

Wow !!! Same as the US. Was Short on nurses before the pandemic?

[tungym]

Experience from Hong Kong of appointing Nurse as Secretary for Food and Health (Head of HKSAR Health Burerau) - 10% nurses and 7% doctors resigned. 7 thousand elderly died because of COVID 5th outbreak and collapse of AED in early 2022.

[Shandleyman]

A CNO, who is an MD, looking after nurses needs...
...which is governed provincially.
I have hopes but they are not that high.

[ValidatingUsername]

Maybe start with advocating for legislation around forced healthcare to revolve around ongoing criminal behaviours and not someone’s mom claiming something occurred that didn’t and then trying to force the individual under that persons care.

[createone]

Some of the dirtiest washrooms I have used are in public hospitals! For heaven’s sake, employ cleaning staff and allow them the time to clean properly. It is embarrassing to see these filthy washrooms with grimy floors and paper strewn everywhere, in a public health setting.