at the College of New Caledonia and the University of Northern B.C., said during her training she witnessed nurses working full-out to care for as many patients as they can. She hopes governments will do more to help.
“It sometimes feels like the system is willing to just keep squeezing and squeezing and squeezing until there are not enough health-care professionals — nurses, physicians, health-care aides, respiratory techs — to meet the need. And when that happens, the quality of health-care suffers, and tragedies happen,” she said.Article content
When the NDP was elected in 2017, ending 16 years of Liberal reign, Dix said B.C. had the lowest number of nurses per capita of the 10 provinces. His government has since “led the country in adding registered nurses” — there were 43,985 in 2018 and 51,575 by 2022 — but has more work to do. “So we’ve seen what was already a shortage to start with has gotten worse. And there’s been early retirements, there are people leaving the profession because of the work environment, the intensity, the serious concerns,” she said. “It’s stressful when you’re worried that your patients are going to not get the care they need.”
While it is laudable that the province has created 602 new nurse training spots, Saewyc said those will be difficult to accommodate in the short-term. That’s because most of the province’s 17 post-secondary institutions which offer nursing degrees are short of instructors, either due to retirements or an inability to hire new staff, said Saewyc, incoming chair of the Nursing Education Council of B.C.
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