Hospitals to hire unskilled OR help
Two Montreal hospitals are planning to hire unskilled workers to act as operating room nurses. It’s hard to see how this could end well.
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Uatu 11:41 on 2021-04-02 Permalink
This is just an accident waiting to happen. Would the managers that suggest this want these unskilled techs in the OR during their operations? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
steph 11:48 on 2021-04-02 Permalink
better than no staff.
dhomas 14:10 on 2021-04-02 Permalink
@steph I’m not so sure. Untrained staff, in nursing or other fields, can often do more harm than good. I work in IT and my management has at times hired warm bodies just to fill in headcount (often for budgetary reasons), and I can say from experience that we would have been better off without some of the incompetence. Not only did I need to do my work and the work of the new person who didn’t know what they were doing, but I would have to clean up their messes to boot.
I can only imagine how dire the consequences might be when it’s literally life or death on the line.
Uatu 16:06 on 2021-04-02 Permalink
The people who do device processing (cleaning and sterilization of OR tools) need a DEC. These new hires will just have a high school diploma and some hours of training. Maybe it will be okay, but I don’t know. I’ve seen half assed cost cutting backfire. Like cutting house keeping and then having to deal with MRSA outbreaks later
Björk 16:55 on 2021-04-02 Permalink
Leftists will defend this and claim it’s racist not to hire unskilled workers.
Blork 17:21 on 2021-04-02 Permalink
I don’t know if it’s a good idea or a bad idea, but I’m pretty sure both good and bad things will result.
Good: more surgeries will take place, probably less burnout among nurses.
Bad: there will most certainly be incidents (sterilization errors, etc.).
The ratio of those good to bad things remains to be seen. If the incidents are all minor, and if this is specified as a short-term solution and not a permanent one, then we’ll look back on this as a good decision. But if there are some catastrophic incidents then it will be seen as a mistake. It’s a gamble!
JaneyB 17:51 on 2021-04-02 Permalink
Ridiculous. They should just fast-track some of the foreign-trained nurses whose credentials are not yet recognized by the government. Is anyone thinking at those hospitals/the Ministry?