Angela Cross, a Personal Support Worker at the Victorian Order of Nurses Canada (VON), will never forget the foreign woman in the “bad wig” she had to train earlier this year in front of a camera crew.
As president of the British Columbia Nurses’ Union, Debra McPherson is the public face of a labour group that represents about 32,000 nurses and health-care workers across the province.
Nearly one third of hospital workers in British Columbia are not washing their hands regularly, despite strong evidence that it is one of the primary ways to prevent the spread of infection in hospitals.