Nurse says she looked at woman ‘3 to 5 seconds,’ staff overwhelmed before sepsis death at Ontario hospital

Nurse says she looked at woman ‘3 to 5 seconds,’ staff overwhelmed before sepsis death at Ontario hospital

The triage nurse who initially assessed Heather Winterstein on the day she died of sepsis in 2021 says she never spoke to the 24-year-old patient and didn't take her vital signs after paramedics had, explaining to a coroner’s inquest that

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