The "Saskatchewan Party" is using the nursing shortage in that province as an election promise. No new news here as political parties are almost always using health care as an election tool. Well for the last couple of years I have been trying to encourage nurses to speak out. I did today on the feedback page at CBC.ca
My advice to the political party was they were not likely to magically pull 800 nurses (that's what they were quoting) out of a hat with promises of money. We are more intelligent than that and what we require are governments with backbone who can address the real issues around the nursing shortage. One of those issues I told them was nursing management who would provide respectful workplaces for us. I for one have had enough of being treated like a second class citizen, using outdated equipment and even more outdated educational resources.
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