Tens of thousands of nurses are currently sitting on the sidelines as hospital emergency rooms in Ontario near the brink of closure due to staffing shortages.
That’s because this pool of about 26,000 nurses in Ontario is internationally educated, according to the most recent report from the province’s Office of the Fairness Commission.
“You have ERs that are closing. You have nursing homes that don't have enough staff. All of it boils down to the same thing. Nursing is like the spinal cord of the system. If you don't have enough nurses, the system cannot function,” Grinspun said. Currently, Ducusin said there are around 400 internationally educated nurses from the Philippines who came to Canada under the caregiving program. “Imagine if all of them got [nurses] licenses,” she said. “It would greatly help the shortages.”
“Diabetes is diabetes. Alzheimer’s is Alzheimer’s,” Ducusin said. “Caring for people and doing everyday stuff, it’s pretty much the same,” she said. Meanwhile, the workforce is collapsing, said Birgit Umaigba, a registered nurse in a Toronto emergency room.
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