Media Advisory - Ontario Nurses' Association to Make Presentation to Committee Hearing Pre-Budget Submissions: Front-line nurses' union says patients need more care
LONDON, ON, Jan. 27, 2015 /CNW/ - James Murray, RN, will make a presentation in London tomorrow to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs.
Murray is a Registered Nurse and ONA Bargaining Unit President for Local 100 at the London Health Sciences Centre. He has worked as an RN for 29 years and will voice the concern of RNs with the extent of understaffing in hospitals in southwestern Ontario and the impact on patient care. Murray will also provide recommendations for inclusion in the 2015 Ontario budget.
He will specifically focus on the extensive restructuring of acute care clinical service, overcapacity and overcrowding in specific units and the implementation of changes to staffing mix that have seen RNs replaced with others, due to budget constraints. The area has a dire need for more RNs. London Health Sciences Centre has cut about 150,000 hours of RN care over the past three years. Cuts to mental health care beds have resulted in a crisis in access to mental health services; Murray will discuss the rise in violent incidents that have resulted.
Murray will speak at 1:15 pm on Wednesday in the Grand Ballroom West, Hilton London.
ONA is the union representing 60,000 nurse practitioners, registered nurses and allied health professionals, as well as more than 14,000 nursing student affiliates providing care in hospitals, long-term care facilities, public health, the community, clinics and industry.
What: |
Ontario Nurses' Association presentation to the Standing Committee on Finance & Economic Affairs |
Who: |
James Murray, RN |
Where: |
Grand Ballroom West, Hilton London, 300 King Street, London |
When: |
1:15 pm, January 28, 2015 |
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SOURCE Ontario Nurses' Association
Sheree Bond, 416-964-8833, ext. 2430; cell: 416-986-8240; [email protected]; Melanie Levenson, 416-964-8833, ext. 2369; [email protected]
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