Posts Tagged ‘covid-19’
Labs: what the pandemic can teach us
The health crisis has forced significant changes in the organization of work in labs â changes that are calling into question the very core of the OPTILAB system. Before we all go back to normal and press the restart button, shouldnât we at least take the time to think about these issues?
Read MoreRethinking work in the time of COVID-19
On March 13, every aspect of our lives changed overnight. Our professional life and family/work balance were turned upside down, with our social life put on hold. Having to contend with a radical reorganization of our work is now a daily challenge. Could we dare to hope for positive changes that will endure?
Read MoreWithdrawing services and professional practice: what you need to know
Some APTS members have been reassigned to work in CHSLDs and have had to withdraw their services from their regular clientele. This raises a number of issues in relation to professional practice. The current health and social emergency and the need to bring down terrifying death rates in care homes for older people are aggravating the structural disorganization of our health and social service system.
Read MoreCan you protect yourself from work-related stress?
âTake care of yourselfâ â weâve heard that a lot over the past months. Easy enough to say, but not so easy to do. In this particularly stressful period for people working in health care and social services, we asked Manon Truchon, professor of psychology at Laval University, to talk to us about the field she specializes in: stress in the workplace.
Read MorePsychological distress: whoâll take care of personnel in essential services?
Last March, Health and Social Services Minister Danielle McCann took strict measures to curb the pandemic. However noble the governmentâs intentions, its actions may come at a steep cost. By modifying the collective agreements of public-sector employees in health and social service facilities, the government upped the powers of managers to offset labour shortages that had been rampant in these facilities for far too long. Managers were given carte-blanche, with practically no safeguards to prevent them from taking shortcuts when implementing such measures in the bureaucratic behemoths that are now our integrated centres (CISSS and CIUSSS).
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