'I lost my house. I lived in a nice condo. I lost my car. Nurse
She lost her nursing job in March.Her vaccination status.
A critical nursing shortage plagues the healthcare system today. , Sharon-Rose Nyambiya wonders why she can't find work as a nurse again.
"I'm almost homeless now because I lost my job," said Trillium Health by March. said Nyambiya, who worked at Partners.
"I lost my home. I lived in a nice condo. I lost my car. It was hard." I have a young toddler and still have student loan debt from studying nursing.
Seeing her frontline colleagues struggling in her understaffed ICU and her ER was frustrating.
However, she is unable to do so because her hospital order is in effect.
"Life has been very stressful. I've been to the ER several times because of the stress I've experienced," said Nyambiya from the Niagara area. 44}
The Ontario Nurses Association (ONA) and the Ontario Registered Nurses Association (RNAO) state that overall figures showing the number of nurses who have lost their jobs due to non-compliance with There is none. Mandatory vaccination.
RNAO said welcoming the abandoned would not have a large positive effect.
"We don't see it as a solution," says RNAO's girlfriend Doris Grinspun.
“Maybe the opposite.
She also said such a move could jeopardize the health of an already precarious patient.
Months Meanwhile, nurses and others working in the struggling health care sector say that repealing Bill 124, which capped nurses' pay raises at 1%, would have a bigger impact on keeping nurses in the system. has claimed to give Attract others.
"The question is not why not put the nurse back in," said Grinspan. "The solution is to get rid of Building 124."
Nyambiya said she no longer cherishes the letters of appreciation she received for working long hours early in the pandemic.
She is trying to rekindle her nursing career.
Two of her friends who are nurses are in a similar situation.
"Until Ontario, I applied for more than 200 jobs, all of which said I had to submit my vaccination status," she said.
She keeps applying for her jobs.
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