Barbara Brookins, president of the P.E.I. Nurses Union and Linda Silas, the president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, provided the following ...
Barbara Brookins is president of the P.E.I. Nurses Union. File - Stu NeatbyBarbara Brookins, president of the P.E.I. Nurses Union and Linda Silas, the president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, provided the following opinion article.
Nurses want Islanders to know we are offering solutions and eager to collaborate with all levels of government. What we want is simple: for patients to finally receive the care they need, and for nurses to practise their profession under safe and sustainable working conditions. But we need governments to start listening.
To stop nurses from resigning, going part-time, or retiring early, and ensure safe patient care, nurses’ working conditions must be improved.What’s more, some of these reassignments involve moving nurses from day positions to nights or 24/7 shift rotations with less than 72 hours’ notice. It is incredible stressful for nurses with young children in daycare or elderly parents living at home to navigate such significant changes to their schedules on such little notice.
These solutions will help bring nurses and early-retirees back to the public sector, reducing P.E.I.’s reliance on expensive private agencies while still ensuring surge needs are met across the country.We also need to expand access to training and target recruitment to bring more people into the nursing workforce. To that end, P.E.I. should scale up student nurse programs to support them securing employment in attractive full-time jobs and support nurses wanting to advance in their careers.
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