Fri Aug 12, 2022 – 5:40 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario (WeRPN) recently confirmed the rumor that many nurses are indeed fleeing Ontario to find better working conditions south of the border.
In a recent interview with the Toronto Sun, WeRPN CEO Dianne Martin confirmed that large swaths of nurses have been leaving Ontario to find more favorable work in the United States, but explained that at present “it’s impossible to know the exact numbers that are gone” because “nobody tracks nurses.”
“We know how many are working in the province. But for the ones that have left, there’s no reporting requirement that insists that they let us know where they’ve gone to seek work,” Martin explained.
A recent WeRPN that found that a whopping 68 percent of nurses say they do not “have enough time or resources to allow them to adequately care for patients.”
“The first thing that has to be resolved is the retention of the nurses they already have. We have nurses that come into the system that work very short periods of time and say ‘I’m just not going to do this,’” the CEO stated.
“We
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Official Street Preachers or its editors
