[Mr.Coffee]

My wife, a RN, has decided to instead pursue a career in teaching (lol).

Here’s some anecdotes from her shift today for a little lens into the state of Alberta healthcare:

- Children’s hospital @ 155% capacity
- they ran out of sheets for kids, so some admitted kids don’t have blankets or sheets
- the new hospital was made too small. Calgary / AB population has obviously exploded so it’s woefully inadequate. There’s room for expansion, but the gov won’t do it because they’re ####ing brutal.
- before she can start her shift she needs access to a computer so she can see the meds her assigned patients are on. There aren’t enough computers, because of the 14 on shift nurses there’s only 8-9 functioning computers. Apparently each nurse must have their own for a variety of reasons. So she went off scouring the hallways and managed to find one but it needed IT support that didn’t exist. By the time she cobbled one together in a hallway and got it working she was well over an hour into her shift so some patients went missing meds. There are no people around to help them with this task and apparently this is a huge issue, causing a large risk for health care on her unit.
- in her experience (20 yrs at Children’s) they’ve never been this full. The Nurse manager is supposed to go call in nurses to help cover (it’s called being “mandated” and you must come in- it isn’t optional) but the nurse manager refuses to do it because it costs too much money (or the nurses off shift are resting because they literally just finished a shift).
- patients in hallways, one patient in a closet

Extremely busy place, not the best care going on. Doctors stressed to the max too. Sounds like a real #### show for sure. Hope your kid doesn’t get sick.