November 21, 2022
To address chronic shortages, ongoing burnout, consistent overtime, poor mental health and poor working conditions the report lays out a strategy with three steps: retain and support, return and integrate and recruit and mentor. Specifically, it suggests:
- A legislated minimum nurse-to-patient ratio to cut down on unmanageable workloads, an initiative implemented in Que. considered a leading international practice in reducing nursing workloads in acute care settings;
- Incentivizing nurses who left to return to this career and investing in those who were educated internationally but haven’t received their licence in Canada; and
- Investing more in recruiting, including increasing the number of nursing faculty to train an increased number of students, forging better partnerships with Indigenous and Black nursing organizations, expanding French-delivered nursing programs and offering more student-loan forgiveness.
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Un nouveau rapport propose des mesures pour améliorer les soins aux patients et régler la pénurie de personnel infirmier - FCSII