The only Atikamekw person working at the Joliette hospital at the time of Joyce Echaquan's death says she was regularly ignored by staff and didn't have an office to work from.
Posted: May 25, 2021 3:34 PM ET | Last Updated: May 25
Dr. Jacques Ramsey, left, and Quebec Coroner Géhane Kamel, right, are co-presiding over the inquest. (Marie-Laure Josselin/Radio-Canada)
Nursing candidates at the Joliette hospital are regularly left unsupervised, contrary to what is required by their professional code, according to testimony heard at the coroner s inquest into the death of Joyce Echaquan.
That was also the case for the aspiring nurse who had Echaquan under her care the day she died at the Centre hospitalier régional de Lanaudière.
A nursing candidate has completed a degree in nursing and is awaiting a permit to be issued by the provincial order of nurses.