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| why exactly New Brunswick is facing a shortage of nurses and what can be done about it
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It is perhaps time for Minister of Health Mike Murphy to establish a task force or some other mechanism to examine why exactly New Brunswick is facing a shortage of nurses and what can be done about it, otherwise the province is likely to face a crisis in nursing care in about 10 years, a time at which it is estimated as many as half our existing nurses will have retired.
Some reasons for the nursing shortage are obvious: we are not graduating enough new nurses to meet the demand; many nurses are leaving for greener pastures (even if our rate of such loss lower than most provinces, it is still at 16 per cent of all nursing graduates leaving). And there is no question many nurses have left and others will be leaving the profession because of burnout, being exhausted by excessive overtime, long hours and no relief in sight.
It may be true that many new nursing graduates have many opportunities in this province, yet to state they should be prepared to take casual positions or temporary full-time positions when other jurisdictions are offering better pay, benefits and full-time positions from the start only highlights the problem here.
As well, there are other less obvious issues contributing to the shortage of nurses. The nurses union, for example, years ago pushed for and obtained a requirement for full-degree nurses, a move that effectively killed a highly successful two-year nursing diploma program that graduated many of the perfectly capable nurses still working today. In other words, both the cost and time it takes to become a nurse were artificially increased. We should re-examine these decisions.
Nurses are a crucial component of effective health care delivery and the people who enter the profession are for the most part caring, conscientious and hard working.
We need not only a system that makes entry into the profession easier, but one that also makes the workload more manageable and the cost to the system and taxpayers less onerous. Mr. Murphy needs to find every way he possibly can to do so.source
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