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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.

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    1 year ago

    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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        1 year ago

        No amount of money is going to keep someone who has burned out on high stress

        Yes it will. They are leaving because the pay is not worth the stress. More pay makes it more worth it.

        we don’t have a shortage

        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.

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          1 year ago

          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.