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Canada has been looking outside its borders to fill a critical nurse shortage, but recruitment efforts are leaving Ghana’s hospitals short-staffed. Now Ghana’s nurse association says Canada should foot the bill for their training.
I said it was shitty for the provinces to do that versus providing more slots in education and higher wages for current medical staff. Instead they steal staff from poor nations and feel no guilt for doing that … which is colonialism at its core.
Yes, that’s a fair point. But even with an investment in better wages, training and more education a critical shortage will take at least a couple years to be mitigated, and a couple years doesn’t seem to be a viable option right now.
That’s fair.
Then the provinces should have IMMEDIATELY increased enrollment to nursing AND increased wages to help keep that current staff on.
None of the problems created by provincial gov’ts should be solved by stealing nurses from other nations.
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No, we have a shortage because people are leaving nursing due to the high stress and low pay. I know multiple people who quit nursing, or moved somewhere with better pay, so the low pay is definitely causing the shortage.
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Yes it will. They are leaving because the pay is not worth the stress. More pay makes it more worth it.
Yes we do, there are not enough nurses to keep hospitals running at their designed efficiency. And the government is purposefully not paying more to fix the shortage because they want public healthcare to get worse so they can sell us on private healthcare.
We do have enough people qualified to be nurses in the country to get our hospitals back in shape, but when you can make more money as a waiter the incentive to keep nursing is low.
It also sounds like the shortage is itself causing the burnout. Some are raking in the OT and making good money but it’s not worth it if you don’t have any time off or even time to see your family after work. At most jobs if there’s no one to relieve you you go home and they run short, maybe reduce services or close early. You can’t do that at a hospital, their options are lots of mandatory overtime or to find literally any other job that’s guaranteed a better work life balance.
No I am not. I am aware that many have to work at 2 or 3 different places to make a full-time wage and few (if any) receive benefits, which leads to them changing over to private companies where they’re paid well, make their own hours and have benefits.