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- That’s especially true this year in the face of widespread shortages of school nurses across the country. Nationwide, only an estimated 65 percent of schools have a full-time school nurse, according to the NASN. But the shortages are more acute in some places than others.
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Feb 22, 2021 · Canadian nursing schools are seeing a surge in interest amid the pandemic, but experts warn it may not be enough to alleviate the shortage of people working in the profession.
May 7, 2024 · The increasing demand for nursing services in Canada far exceeds the current supply. Statistics Canada reported in 2021-22 nursing had higher job vacancies than any other occupation, and nurses worked over 26 million hours of overtime.
May 7, 2024 · The increasing demand for nursing services in Canada far exceeds the current supply. Statistics Canada reported in 2021-22 nursing had higher job vacancies than any other occupation, and...
- Spotlight on burnout
- Mandatory overtime
- Solutions
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the media has rightly focused attention on how burnout impacts healthcare workers. During this period of acute stress, the prevalence of burnout would be expected to rise. However, High levels of burnout, pre-pandemic, point to longstanding issues with nurses’ working conditions, where prolonged stress and heavy worklo...
Mandatory overtime is a newsworthy topic, especially in Quebec where nurses are legally obligated to accept doing overtime. Certainly, nurses in other provinces can decline overtime, but in practice, nurses feel intense pressure to put in extra hours when asked. For a nurse, declining overtime means leaving their patients with a sub-standard level ...
The nursing shortage is a complex problem that requires a multi-pronged approach. Hiring alone will not solve this crisis.
Nurses and allied health professionals were absent from work for an average of 19 days in 2022 due to illness or disability—nearly one month, based on a five-day workweek—up from 14.7 days in 2021. Among all major occupational groups, nurses saw the biggest increase (+4.2 days) in such absences from 2019 to 2020, the first year of the pandemic.
Sep 15, 2021 · Nurses' unions, labour economists and others have been sounding the alarm for years that the number of qualified nurses was already falling short of demand in Canada, especially given an aging...
Nov 19, 2022 · A new report released Thursday by the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU), called Sustaining Nursing in Canada, laid out a list of solutions that could help to address the shortage of...
