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Foundation for education Construction continues on the new Oak Bay high school. The new school building is expected to be finished in the summer of 2015. See the story on page A3. Arnold Lim/News staff
Care aides learn to identify subtle changes Part 3 in a series A health care assistant explains that care aids have the skills to work in acute care
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he B.C. Nurses’ Union and Island Health are locked in a bitter dispute about changing the model of nursing, but one health care professional has seen the new system work successfully at Victoria General Hospital. Mary Ann Desjardins, a care aide for 21 years,
is stationed at the VGH neuroscience department and works with a team of two registered nurses and one licensed practical nurse. The team normally cares for about 14 patients, and Desjardins helps them eat, get in and out of bed, bathe and use the toilet. “We’re able to do the extra little pieces that a registered nurse doesn’t have time to do, such as comforting the patient,” she said. “There are times when I look at a patient and decide, ‘I’m going to sit with this person because I know he or she is frightened.’” Her team was part of a small pilot project
for the care delivery model redesign (CDMR) implemented at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital in September and planned for Victoria General and Royal Jubilee hospitals in April. Changes will have care aides taking on nursing duties of feeding, bathing and toileting acute-care patients in an effort to reduce costs and give patients more one-on-one time with a health care professional. Desjardins said having care aides in acute care is a positive change. PlEASE SEE: Union wants plan scrapped, Page A6
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