By prohibiting nurses from working on two different sites, Quebec has created a situation that could ultimately put the health system at a disadvantage. This is what Audrey-Anne Lalonde, a nurse and enterostomal therapist at the Quebec University Hospital, strongly denounced on Sophie Durocher’s microphone.
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Mme Lalonde aspires to join a very limited university program aimed at training pediatric nurses. Except that for your application to be accepted, it is preferable that your file includes many hours with children. To achieve this, she worked at least one weekend per month at CHU Ste-Justine. No longer able to be employed in two health establishments, she sees her dream becoming simply inaccessible.
“With human resources, we spent 45 minutes evaluating my options, but it always came back to the same thing. Either I leave my position at the CHU de Québec, or I close my file at Sainte-Justine and I forget my other aspirations,” explained M.me Lalonde.
In her dreams for the future, the nurse wishes to open a clinic in Quebec offering exclusively pediatric care, an offer available in only two establishments at present.
By speaking publicly today, Audrey-Anne Lalonde hopes that her message will be heard, and that the government will review its position on the work of nurses. In the meantime, she invites Santé Québec officials to wear a nurse’s uniform for a week to better understand their reality on the ground.
