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    2 months ago

    Yeah, retaining nursing is a big deal. In Ontario, I think we have 150,000 nurses. The government’s approach to nurses leaving the workforce post COVID because of poor working conditions has been to graduate more nurses. But a new-grad nurse is not as competent as a nurse with 10 years of experience, and so the ‘graduate more nurses’ approach does not offset the competency drain from any excessive churn of experienced nurses