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The mental health Centre is Short Between 30 and 40 nurses at any Given time say officials with the Manitoba government and general employees Union Ngeu which represents 139 nurses at the Selkirk facility. Nearly All of the 261 Beds at the mental health Centre Are full and nurses care for Short and Long term patients suffering from dementia mental illness and brain injury. Nurses say they Deal with volatile patients on a daily basis without on site Security and sometimes endure physician mental or sexual abuse. Acute care nurse Mary Fuhr said the locked unit that houses some of the sickest psychiatric patients is Short six full time nurses and that there Arentt enough nurses to staff All of the 30 Beds in the new brain injury Centre set to open soon. Nursing shortages elsewhere were eased by the pay increase 11,000 nurses represented by the Manitoba nurses Union received earlier this year. But nurses at the Selkirk mental health Centre Are part of the civil service and did not receive that increase. They also work 65 hours More a year than the provinces 11,000 other nurses. Peter Olfert Ngeu president said the Union reached a Deal with the province wednesday afternoon that says All 330 of Manitoba ass civil service nurses will receive the same annual salary As menu nurses retroactive to october 2007. Next Spring civil service nurses will also work Shorter hours. Olfert said parity will help Selkirk mental health Centre compete with other hospitals to attract new graduates and retain existing staff. I think Many times those facilities Are overlooked by Young grads coming out of school As a place to work Olfert said. I think this is going to help those institutions recruit since they can now say the Money you make Here is the same As other facilities. Fuhr said Sheds seen colleagues retire or leave from burnout and the centres recruitment and retention efforts dont work Well enough to replace them. New graduates Are lured by higher salaries and signing bonuses at other hospitals in Manitoba or elsewhere in Canada. Its about fatigue and burnout Fuhr said. The same Job that was done before by four nurses is now being done by two. Fuhr said the workload has increased for nurses since patients coming in Are sicker and some therapeutic group programs outings and medication awareness among them have been curtailed because of the shortage. She speculates the critical staffing problem receives less attention because the nurses work with mental health patients not in areas such As cancer treatment which would Likely cause Public outrage. Minister of healthy living Kerri Irvin Ross said they province is working to resolve those issues. The administration at the Hospital is working to fill those positions and ism confident they re going to Irvin Ross said. Tory health critic Myrna Driedger said All nurses in the health care system should be treated the same and not be forced to work in unsafe conditions. If you have a massive nursing shortage the patient in the end is the one who suffers the most from it she said. I dont think what these nurses Are asking for is unfair. Brenda Flett works in a psychiatric geriatric Ward she describes As archaic where some rooms have cubicle dividers to separate Long term care patients while other rooms offer no privacy for people. Jen. Skerritt free press. My. Ca aboriginal Leader Elijah Harper joined other residential school survivors thursday to announce a non profit company designed to Cut through red tape for former students entitled to compensation Worth tens of thousands of dollars. The applicants Many of whom Are aged ailing seniors find the system confusing and intimidating and May give up on it losing out on compensation they deserve reporters were told at a press conference to introduce a company called Achimov inc., residential school solutions. Ism Here to launch the Campaign for Achimov said Harper the groups Public spokesman. Its a company formed and designed for Indian residential school survivors Harper said. The former politician has a National reputation As a hero for aboriginal rights for his stand to defeat the Meech Lake Accord in 1991. Harper spent his childhood shuttled among three Manitoba residential schools until he was 16. Achimov is a Cree phrase that Means Tell your Story. Workers with the company will help out in any Way they can Achimov president and Cree survivor of residential school Belinda Vanden Broeck said. We Are an aboriginal business working for aboriginal survivors Vandenbroeck said. Principally the company is business is to get cheques in survivors hands. Staff will prepare applications for claims offer moral support and practical advice during arduous adjudication hearings and help to find culturally sensitive Healing programs. They will even help with estate planning. Achimov will charge a Flat 15 per cent commission fee to be deducted from clients final settlement cheques. The Money will cover the company is costs and also to organizing cultural gatherings for survivors. Ottawa is paying out $ 5 billion in programs services and compensation to first nations an estimated 80,000 survivors of Indian residential schools who Are still alive. Earlier this year prime minister Stephen Harper delivered a formal apology broadcast from the commons to aboriginal people for the suffering caused through residential schools nearly $ 1 billion has already been paid in so called common experience cheques averaging $ 25,000, to every survivor of residential school. For a Century aboriginal children were sent to schools far from their families to learn How to read and write and be christians. Thousands lost their aboriginal languages and were Cut off from their cultures and Home territories. Many were also abused sexually physically and psychologically. Ottawa has imposed a 2011 deadline for compensation claims. Alexandra. Paul free press. My. Ca cutting through All the red tape residential school survivors helped by Alexandra Paul pay raise aimed at keeping mental health nurses Selkirk Centre Short up to 40 staff by Jen Skerritt Ken Gigliotti / Winnipeg free press Elijah Harper spent his childhood among three residential schools. A _ 12_ oct 10 08. Ind a12 1 0/ 9/ 08 8 12 51 pm ;