Saskatchewan Nursing Shortage:Our Leaders must Walk their Talk |
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By Mario deSantis, November 30, 1999 |
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bidding war taking place among the districts | Few minutes ago, I browsed the Web site of The StarPhoenix, and I read today's article "Recruiting |
war among districts unacceptable(1)".( written Monday published today) The authors | |
of this article state that they are utterly insane at the bidding war taking place among the | |
districts to hire new graduating nurses. I already expressed the hypocritical behaviour of our | |
healthcare political and administrative leaders, who, instead to clean up our own house in order | |
first, shift the blame to everybody else but themselves(2). | |
In justifying the offering of the $2,000 cash bursary to the graduating nurses, Brian Morgan, | |
...recognize an asset from a hole in the ground | vice-president of the Saskatoon District Health, says "...We have to ensure we're competitive..." We |
must not forget that Brian Morgan is a product of the Saskatchewan Association of Health | |
Organizations, an organization which under the law and order leadership of Brian Rourke(3) can't | |
"...recognize an asset from a hole in the ground(4)(5)..." Therefore, Brian Morgan's claim that his | |
district has to be competitive must be taken with a grain of salt; in fact, it is more likely that Morgan's | |
claim is just another move by our incompetent healthcare administrators to create an environment of | |
total confusion where they can shift the blame to the provincial and federal governments and come | |
out either as the saviours of our health care insurance system or as change agents for a so called dual | |
and more competitive health care system(6). Either ways, our incompetent healthcare administrators | |
will be the winners, as usual at the expense of everybody else, over any possible change of | |
government; therefore, the supervision of the operations of the districts by the Provincial Auditor | |
should become an ongoing essential service of the Legislative Assembly. | |
failed to develop a coherent plan | The authors of the above mentioned article state that "...it should be up to the government, not |
individual districts, to attract nurses to serve in Saskatchewan hospitals...". In addition, they state | |
that the government has failed in "...its health reform..., that it has failed to develop a coherent | |
plan to meet Saskatchewan's needs or to share any vision it has for health care..." | |
We know that both the provincial government and the Saskatchewan Association of Health | |
leaders have a shared vision of healthcare with their citizens | Organizations (SAHO) have pursued a re-engineering scheme of health care through the |
implementation of the Saskatchewan Health Information Network (SHIN)(7)(8). We also know | |
that this re-engineering scheme was designed to cut the number of working nurses in this | |
province(9). As a consequence, to ask this government to address the shortage of nurses doesn't | |
make sense anymore, it is just too late to rewire the minds of Premier Romanow and his friends(10). | |
What we need is to admit our own mistakes and look for transformational changes(11) leading to a | |
new government where our leaders have a shared vision of healthcare with their citizens and where | |
these same leaders are able to walk their talk. | |
-------------Endnotes: | |
Recruiting war among districts unacceptable, Opinions, The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, November 29, 1999, Local time: 09:35:39AM http://www.saskstar.sk.ca/ | |
Saskatchewan Nursing Shortage: Shifting the blame for our own Incompetence, by Mario deSantis, November 27, 1999 | |
Never enough money for SAHO, by Mario deSantis, March 30, 1999 | |
TRYING TO GRASP THE INTANGIBLE: The assets that really count are the ones accountants can't count--yet. Here's one way to put a dollar value on corporate knowledge. Thomas A. Stewart, Join Tom Stewart in the Fortune Forum on CompuServe (GO FFORUM) or by E-mail: 74774.3555 | |
Health Reform in Saskatchewan: Digging Holes in the Ground, by Mario deSantis and reviewed by James deSantis, October 20, 1999 | |
Health debate rages in Alta. Legislature: Klein denies opposition charge that private health care would violate NAFTA, The StarPhoenix, November 23, 1999, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | |
What Happened to the Saskatchewan Health Information Network (SHIN)?, by Mario deSantis, June 10, 1999 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/desantis57/SHIN.html | |
Healthcare in Saskatchewan: Getting ready for re-reengineering and shifting the blame, by Mario deSantis, October 31, 1999 | |
Systems Dynamics in Education: Thinking Differently, by Mario deSantis, February 20, 1999 | |
Rewiring The Corporate Brain: Using The New Science To Rethink How We Structure And Lead Organizations, by Danah Zohar, Berrett-Koehler, 1997 | |
Refer to relevant articles by Mario deSantis published in the North Central Internet News |