Nurses chanting 'safe patient care' marched through downtown Nanaimo Sept 17. BCNU President Gayle Duteil demanded Island Health scrap a care model which is hurting safe patient care at Nanaimo Hospital. 26 nurses have been replaced by care aides since the new model went into effect in September of 2013, leading to a reduction of 48,000 hours of bedside nursing care.
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