Nurses protest plan to replace them as blood screeners
Anne-Marie Tobin
THE CANADIAN PRESS
thestar.com
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Canadian Blood Services and several nurses unions are at odds over a proposal to reduce the number of nurses working at blood donor clinics across the country.
.The blood agency said safety remains its No. 1 concern as it makes plans to introduce changes prompted in part by difficulties in finding and keeping nurses. Regulatory approval from Health Canada would be required, but Canadian Blood Services is hoping to start moving on the plan in the fall.
.The Ontario Nurses' Association said the decision to gradually replace registered nurses who perform health screening and assessments of blood donors will risk the safety of the country's blood supply.
"HIV, hepatitis C, hepatitis B – there's many, many different diseases that are blood-borne, and we as the registered nurses are in the position to do an appropriate assessment," ONA president Linda Haslam-Stroud said in an interview Tuesday.
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