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(May 9, 2025)<\/p>\n

By: Joanna Frketich, The Hamilton Spectator<\/p>\n

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One Hamilton<\/a> <\/span>hospital nurse worked 24 hours straight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Another worked the equivalent of nearly 63 hours a week for an entire year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Three nurses worked so many hours that it added up to more than one and a half full-time jobs each.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The increasing amount of excessive overtime<\/span><\/a> logged at Hamilton\u2019s understaffed hospitals since the pandemic is deeply disturbing to unions and patient advocates, who question why there are no limits to how many hours a nurse can work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s dangerous,\u201d said Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, which is an advocacy group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is completely unreasonable and unsafe for the worker and for the patients,\u201d Mehra said. \u201cIt means more accidents and injuries. It means more medical errors. Who wants to be the patient who\u2019s being treated on the 50th hour of that person\u2019s work week when they\u2019re exhausted?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not supposed to be driving their bodies into the ground to provide health care for people,\u201d Mehra said. \u201cIt is unsustainable. Nursing is a job where you are on your feet, working physically, working all the time. It\u2019s a very tough job.\u201d<\/p>\n

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