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Registered Practical Nurses struggling with pandemic stress, workload: poll
Oshawa, Ont., hospital with her car radio turned up and sings along in a bid to lift her spirits.She tries to take her mind, ever so briefly, off the stress, uncertainty and large workload that awaits her in the emergency room that day, as the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic rages.Even after 33 years in the profession, Parks said the pandemic has opened her eyes to the fragility of our health care system and the distress both she and her fellow nurses feel. Ontario reports more than 3,200 new COVID-19 cases, 47 deaths “I get into the parking lot and sit, and regroup,” she said, acknowledging that some days its hard to go into work.“I hope that today will be a better day than it was yesterday,” she said she tells herself.