Health committee  I couldn't agree more. Working conditions are always our number one concern as working nurses, the frontline nurses. Short-staffing contributes to the working environment and the level of care you can deliver. Working conditions are number one. Violence in the workplace is some

Health committee  I can't speak to why the Public Health Agency is not updating its guidelines, because the science is there. Something as recently as this week has come out again in support of the aerosolization of COVID. I don't know why they're not; I can't speak to that. It depends on where

Health committee  Well, nurses know: Nurses know the truth. We follow science and we make decisions based on scientific evidence. We said right from the get-go that nurses and health care workers in the hot spots and dealing with COVID-positive and COVID-presumptive patients should have access to

Health committee  Since I'm on the front line, I see it on a regular basis, where people now don't have benefits coverage, so stop taking their medication and end up in the emergency room with a bleeding ulcer, let's say, and then have to have emergency surgery, and so on. There is a financial co

Health committee  Thank you. I want to acknowledge that I'm speaking to you from Treaty 6 land here in Edmonton, Alberta. I give thanks to the fore peoples taking care of the land prior to our arrival. My name is Pauline Worsforld and I'm a registered nurse. I'm here today to speak on behalf of

Finance committee  As far and wide as it will allow. Then, with the pilot projects, you have to build something that's sustainable for the future. You can't just drop a pilot project and say okay, that was really nice, and yes it supports the research on the shelf. Now we have to apply it to the wo

Finance committee  We received some funding that I referred to around the research-to-action project. It was $4.5 million for two years and funded ten projects. So we would use something similar to that. One of the projects that was very successful was an 80-20 project, where the nurse spent 80% o

Finance committee  Lucky her.

Finance committee  I would have to concur with your wife about the poverty situation. It's directly related and linked to the social determinants of health, which we've heard others speak about today, and those are food, shelter, clothing, education, nutrition, those types of social determinants of

Finance committee  Good afternoon. I am the secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, and I'm a working nurse. I work in the recovery room of the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, so hello to my fellow Albertans. CFNU represents over 156,000 nurses and student nur

Finance committee  I'm not intimately familiar with the pharmacare program in Quebec. We do hear from our members across Canada. You're right, the nurses in each of the provinces, through their provincial unions, speak to the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions. I also said at the beginning that w

Finance committee  The paper I referred to actually says we could save $10.7 billion--save it. It's not going to cost us that much money. You're right, we're not asking for more money for nurses, even though we need more nurses. I think with the cost savings with a pharmacare program we could loo

Finance committee  Isn't that supposed to be my question?

Finance committee  I think because it's a multi-jurisdictional issue. That is the biggest challenge, because the federal, the provinces, and the territories all have to agree. I would say that is one of the largest barriers at this point in time. I think with bulk purchasing, doing things.... In Al

Finance committee  The only thing we've done is bring it to the attention of people in the positions of power. We've been saying that we're very concerned about this as well. We see our patients, residents, and clients paying out of pocket for drugs that, as you say, don't give any additional benef