Employees Rate IHA - Part 1

Posted July 3, 2012 on www.ratemyemployer.ca about Interior Health:


Its no secret- IHA is broke. I have worked in 3 different provinces in my young career. They need to update the main computer program thats used to look up labs, rad reports, etc as it is over 25 years old. You cant even use a mouse! I find that i waste a lot of time trying to find out things that should take seconds. Over that last 7 years i have had several different managers, I can honestly say a few are great, a few are bad. They are not given much $$ to work with, and i think that many are advocating for our patients health. However, there are some that will throw you under the bus (as stated earlier).

Higher management needs to admit that the deficit impacts patient care and its not safe. Everyday we have so many hallway patients that the beds are PERMANENT fixtures- they have a night table, and a crappy privacy screen set up. As soon as you arrive on the unit, they poor patient is right there; bam- you're in their face. They have no privacy, even for a Dr or Nursing assessment, they cant turn off the big hall lights when they want, and dont forget the non-existant emergency equipment that should be at every bedside. We are constantly playing musical beds- "were getting a new patient that needs a regular bed- who is MOST appropriate for a hall bed?" We have to pick someone to move into the hall to make way for someone that is more sick- maybe an old Veteran that has put in too much time to be treated this way! And into their bed goes an ungreatful young person with addiction issues, needs a room b/c he's MRSA, VRE or whatever. As soon as he gets there hes complaining of back pain and wants his Dilaudid. Happens all too often. 

Then, to build a brand new building with virtually no new beds is outrageous.