AG - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 11, 1998

Bottom line: patients suffer

An open letter ta:
Michael Leisinger and
the Terrace Community
Health Council

Dear Sirs:

Health care in Terrace is
in crisis. Take note of three
articles in the Oct. 28 The
Terrace Standard.

One was a_ self-
congratulatory article about
how well the health council
is handling its deficit at
Millis. Memorial Hospital,
the second concemed nurses
threatening an overtime ban
at the hospital to reinforce
their demands for more help
and the third was a letter
from 4 woman conceming
the poor care she received

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as a hospital patient.

Basically, patients are not
getting the care they need,
nurses are overextended,
and the bottom line is
money.

It seems the paticnt is no
longer an important consid-
eration in your  policy-
making ventures. If that fo-
cal point is lost, the fact that
the patients are not receiv-
ing optimal nursing care is
not all that relevant.

Your ward staffing deci-
sions depend on where you

It’s time will come

Dear Sir:

What do you call a gum
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Bendere Dundat.

In the trinitarian nature of
man, body, soul and spirit
humanity diversified after
the collapse of the Tower of
Babel in Genesis. To the
east men followed the
metaphysical while in the
Grecian west the intellect of
the soul was emphasized.

Only the Jews followed
the incorruptible path to
God along the spiritual
plane; and He was/is the
great gift of ihe Jews to
mankind.

From a Biblical standpoint
there is no difference be-
tween the intellectual west
and the metaphysical east.
‘They make up two-thirds of
the synergy we are discover-
ing today in humanity.

I foresee a time when
Inetaphysics is as common
to our Judeo-Christian
spiritual tradition as the

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philosophies of the west that
were converted by the carly
Saints of the Church.

And while my sister-in-
law, Dr. Laurel Gregg, prac-
tises the tradition of the
Witch of Endor I doubt very
much that the Prophet
Samuel will be making any
local appearances.

Everyone knows a
homeopath is merely a
humourist in the medical
profession.

Brian Gregg,

Terrace, B.C.

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prioritize patient care. Da
you listen to the nurses
when they complain of
being overextended and re-
quest extra staffing?

Have tiurses not spoken up
at management mectings,
only to walk away dis-
satisfied because their con-
cems were not heard?

How many times are
nurses, Wha are working full
time already, called in for
extra shifts? Is this safe?
Whiere’s your casual pool?

Nurses are dissatisfied
with spending shift after
shift in crisis management.
Who does a nurse attend to
first, the pediatric paticnt
who is vomiting, the patient
who is climbing over the
bed rails, the new mom with
breastfeeding _ difficulties,
the patient with the IV ma-
chine with alarms going off,
or the patient who is re-
questing a glass of water?

Something has to give.
What gives is total patient
cate for every patient.
Crises get met, but needs
aren't.

The caring attitudes of
nurses are affected by the
overwork and by constantly

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compromising quality of
care. Nurses are not mal-
contents, they are profes-
sionals who want to do a
good job.

I spent 2 bit of time nurs-
ing in East Africa, There,
nurses performed anly
medical-oriented tasks such
as physical assessments,
dressings, dispensing
medications, intravenous
therapy, and some teaching.

The rest of patient care
was done by the family of
the patient, they provided all
meals, bedding (and some-
times the mattresses),
change of clothes, medical
supplies such as gloves and
needles. They were also
responsible for bathing, am-
bulating, and meeting all
other non-medical needs.

If this is the direction that
our health care system is
going, you need to inform at
least two groups of people.
Nurses, so that the quality
patient care they feel com-
pelied and called to give can
be reduced to priorizing es-
sential medical needs.

And patients and their
families so that the depen-
dency on and expectations
for appropriate nursing care
can fall back on their own
shoulders.

C, Vandenberg,
Terrace, B.C.

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