The expertise of nurses and practical nurses is increasingly called upon in the province’s hospitals.
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It was in 2008, at Notre-Dame Hospital, that nursing assistants began to work in the operating room, where they represented 15% of the staff.
At the CHUM, for about six years, the work of this nursing staff has been valued.
“We weren’t able to operate our 30 operating rooms. Then 30 operating rooms, it’s a growing waiting list, it’s patients who are not operated on, ”raises Danielle Fleury, former deputy CEO at the CHUM.
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Thanks to his work, the problem was solved. At the CHUM, where 20,000 surgeries were performed last year, 160 nurses and nursing assistants work in the operating room. The ratio is 40% auxiliary nurses and 60% nurses.
Met by our journalist, a nursing assistant explains that she received support from the other teams in the operating room.
“I like the challenge, I like to advance in what I do […] The only thing we are not allowed to do in the operating room is really to assess the patient, ”says Souhila Bouibed, auxiliary nurse at the CHUM.
A presence of these health professionals which delights his colleagues in the operating room.
“They assist us during the operations, they give us the instruments. It helps us reduce surgery waiting lists because it helps us increase our resources,” says Dr. Erica Patocskai, head of the surgical oncology department at the CHUM.
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Meanwhile, in eastern Montreal, Santa Cabrini Hospital was the first, two years ago, to integrate them into intensive care.
“The people who took care of setting up this dynamic were enormously solicited by the other establishments, to see how it had happened. It’s starting to be a little more… more open, more listening to be able to introduce nursing assistants into these centers,” says Carole Grant, president of the Order of Nursing Assistants. of Quebec.
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Since last April, the CHU Sainte-Justine has followed suit and has become the first pediatric hospital in Quebec to rely on their intensive care services.
“As long as it remains in their area of expertise, there is no problem. We need everyone in the health network right now […] It’s not so much a problem of the number of nurses, there may be a few shortages, but it’s very much the way we put them to work,” says Luc Mathieu, president of the Order of Nurses and Quebec nurses.
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There are officially more than 83,000 nurses and 28,000 nursing assistants in Quebec.
*See Harold Gagné’s report in the video above*
2023-06-28 23:09:04
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