Hospital of Trois-Rivières: 16 nurses refuse to work

Photo courtesy, Amélie St-Yves
The president of the Syndicat des professionnelles en soins de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec, Nathalie Perron, in front of the hospital emergency in Trois-Rivières.

Amélie St-Yves

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 16:08

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THREE-RIVERS | emergency, hospital of Trois-Rivières, has so overflowed in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, 16 nurses have refused to come to work, because they believed not to be numerous enough.

No less than 77 patients were present at the emergency around midnight, while the normal is 45. The 16 nurses chose not to work, as they felt that it had to be at least 20 nurses to meet the demand.

Even the ambulances had to be diverted to other hospitals because there were too many patients.

This is the third time since January that the nurses at Three Rivers refuse to come to work.

The hospital then asked the nurses whose shift ended at midnight if they would do the mandatory overtime until 8 o’clock in the morning, but they were all denied at this time.

The Code of ethics for nurses requires them to not leave a patient alone. The team of evening, therefore, has been forced to stay at work until a solution is found.

At 2h50, two nurses have finally agreed to do mandatory overtime up to 8 hours.

The 16 nurses who refused to work are then entered in position with the two that remained.

The two women who have made the mandatory overtime were forced to work 16 hours in line, according to the trade union representative, Nathalie Perron.

One in three

Between 1 April and 12 January last, the close of a nurse in three had done the mandatory overtime, the CIUSSS of the Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec.

A never-before-seen in terms of the number of nurses or 1013 on 3434, since that data is available (2009).

The figures provided by the CIUSSS we also learn that they had accomplished 8520 hours TSO, which represents an average of 8.4 hours per nurse.

“I’m still surprised that this is not more than that, with what I hear on the ground. I would have expected more, but it’s still unacceptable,” said the president of the Syndicat des professionnelles en soins de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec, Nathalie Perron.

The director of human resources, communications and legal affairs at the CIUSSS, Louis Brunelle, does not seek to defend the TSO.

“It doesn’t work. It is sure that it does not have good sense (…) Our objective, is that there is more, and since a couple of weeks, it’s repetitive, it’s worrisome,” he said.