Nazareth Hospital

Fair pay, free parking, weekend differentials, safe neighbourhood.

The Hospital building itself is old, and poorly maintained. Nursing management shows a lack of responsiveness and concern. The education department keeps outdated policies. Expectations are unreasonable, stressful, and inconvenient, including mandatory yet limitedly available annual in-house inservices and old-fashioned pencil-and-paper testing that requires an 87% passing score. The facility is dirty, with garbage and sharps containers regularly overflowing, and shortages of supplies and PPE. Toilet paper, paper towels, and hand sanitizer stations are consistently empty or broken. Equipment is outdated, poorly maintained, and hard to find, often malfunctioning—especially IV machines that frequently alarm. There are too few electrical outlets, with small, cluttered, and dirty patient rooms. Windows do not open, and heating and cooling systems in every room are hard to control and often break down. Nurses constantly argue over computer stations, which are insufficient and often broken. Computers are slow and need frequent restarts. Tech support calls involve long waits. Nurse morale is low, worsened by constant understaffing. Most nurses do not speak English as their first language. The practice of assigning a charge nurse to each floor without additional duties was discontinued. Night nurses are forced to do clerical work, central supply, and transportation tasks, including lab runs. The “IV team” is only one overworked nurse available during business hours. Food quality is poor and overpriced. Work emails are cluttered with irrelevant messages, and HR processes all must be completed online.