Ontario nurses rally to call for better staffing ratios
The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), which represents about 60,000 hospital nurses in Ontario, has been asking for more nurses in the province’s public hospitals for over 20 years.
This week, hundreds of RNs, health-care professionals, labour leaders and allies took to the streets to address what’s gripping Ontario’s health-care system right now— the lack of regulations around nurse-to-patient ratios, a policy enforced in both British Columbia and Nova Scotia, but not in Ontario.
CJTM News talked to ONA Vice President Karen McKay-Eden to find out the latest on labour negotiations with the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) and why it poses a risk to patients if proper staffing measures are not in place.