Listen here or subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts, including YouTube, where Closed Captioning is available. If you would like to support the journalism of the Toronto Star, you can subscribe at thestar.com/subscribingmatters. Guest: Birgit Umaigba, an ICU/ER nurse based in TorontoThe ongoing wave of the Omicron variant is straining Ontario’s hospitals to a breaking point. The nursing shortage has been inching its way into hospitals across Canada for years, and now COVID-19-related burnout and nurses walking off the job are adding to it. Toronto-based ICU nurse Birgit Umaigba joins “This Matters” to give us a glimpse of the challenges inside the profession.

Source: thestar January 11, 2022 12:37 UTC