Hospital gets money
to boost nurse levels

MILLS MEMORIAL Hos-
pital has received its first
payment from a $50 million
plan to increase the number
of nurses around the pro-
vince.

“The amount is just under
$30,000 — about enough to
add a half lime nurse to the
facility hard-pressed — by
nursing shortages caused by
illness, ‘stress and other
leaves, .

‘The - hospital has calcu-

“lated it needs an additional
13.5 full time nursing, posi-
tions al a cost of approxi-
mately $1 million’ for its
acute care, nursery and in-
tensive care wards.

Announced carlier _ this
year, the $50 million is to be
spent over the next ‘three
years to boost the number of
nurses in the province by
1,000,

The $30,000 given to
Mills is part of a first wave
of $10 million to fulfill the
$50 million commitment. A
second wave of $10 million
is expected in August.

-Tom Novak, the man
brought in to set right the
hospilal’s financial situa-
tion, said the amount given
Mills won't go far.

Yet he says there might be
more as more and more of
the $50 million is released,

“The challenge is to
maintain the level of service
we have now,”’ said Novak.

But that’s difficult, Navak

added, because the demands
on the hospital continually
outstrip the number of beds
and nurses for which it is
budgeted.

Overall, Novak continued,
nursing shortages are more
acute in the larger hospitals
in the bigger cities where
heart and other highly spe-
cialized surgeries take place.

A 15-page application for
more iurses submilied by
tbe Terrace and Arca Health

‘Council, which runs Mills -

and the Terraceview Lodge
extended and intermediate
care facility, outlines some
of the problems facing the

’ facilities.

In broad terms, the report
indicates problems in over
time, callbacks and ensuring
nurses are trained for their
functions,

“Regular and — casual
Turses ‘are getting bumt out
and sick because of working
long howrs and much over-
time on a daily basis,’* was
one contment from a nurse
contained in the section on
the hospital’s ‘acute care
unit.

Other comments from
nurses indicate unsafe situa-
tions are created because of
staff shortages and that in-
creased workload has ‘in-
creased medical errors,

In the three-bed intensive
care unil, more nurses are
needed to provide care to

meel accepted standards, the
report says,

“Patient care is com-
promised,” reads one com-
ment from a nurse,

Under a sub-section relat-
ing to intensive care called
‘challenges’, the report indi-
cates there’s a problem in
when there are more ‘than
three patients admilled: to
the unit.” ,

In the nursery arca, nurses
say they need more help to
provide care for mothers ex-
hausted after c-sections or
from long deliveries,

“To help well infants at

-nighl, it is often difficult to.

provide nursing care, per-
form all the paperwork
duties of our job while car-
rying a fussy infant in our
arms that has been fussing
for hours to give mom some
rest that is necessary for
emotional well-being,”’ in-
dicated one nutse.

' At Terraceview Lodge, the
report says the needs of
patients have climbed past
the nursing care that’s avail-
able.

Hospitalized residents
retum to Terraceview cart-
lier, their needs often bor-
dering on acute care,’* the
report says, ,

And the report says Ter-
raceview finds itself compe-
ting with the hospital for
casual or relief nursing
coverage.

Lack of passengers halts
Air B.C. afternoon flights

AIR B.C. has ended a two-year effort to
provide an afternoon direct from Van-
couver and return again Hight.

“There were not enough people using
it,” airline spokesman Angela Mah said
last week of the BAc146 jet service,

The company has taken the aircraft dedi-
cated to the run and is instead using it to
add a second daily Edmonton-Denver ser-

vice, she said.

‘It has nothing specifically to do with
Terrace, it-is a sign of the overall economy.

in the province,’’ said Mah.

‘*We have to put our equipment where we
can get the best rate of return.’”
Mah did indicate the company constantly

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