This year, Ontario’s budget includes plans to fund more beds, an entire new hospital and a series of initiatives to retain nurses. The causative agent of our current health-care crisis is not a lack of furniture or buildings — it is a lack of people. These beds are part of Ontario’s physical hospital patient capacity, which has not changed throughout our health-care crisis. While beds are available throughout the hospital, the staff necessary to care for patients are not — rendering those beds useless. Nurse-to-patient ratios are meant to be limited and maintained, as they are acuity-based and necessary for nurses to provide safe and quality patient care.

Source: thestar August 15, 2022 23:59 UTC