We are NOT coping.

Staffing shortages on most shifts.

Junior, new grad, and students often the majority of staff on shift.

Increased responsibility on senior staff.

We often do not have the equipment we need to safely provide care! We do not have enough CTGs on a regular basis… Or they are missing pieces. We do not have a working ultrasound. We regularly run out of consumables such as buckets, bowls, blood taking equipment, and paperwork.

We are not coping! At all!

It’s a system full of near misses, catch ups, and close calls!

The extra stress and work required dealing with this pandemic, with little or no recognition from management is breaking staff.  The abuse we receive from the public re support people and RAT on arrival, and masks we have to enforce… it’s all getting too much, on top of what we already deal with in a busy birthing suite…

We feel nobody is listening.