"So you're going to have to pay more for nurses to get them. Programs that offer student loan forgiveness are also good hiring incentives,Aiken said. She said some jurisdictions, including rural areas where hiring is really tough, have had success with offering $10,000 signing bonuses - something Linda Silas of the CFNU noted is also on offer to nurses who relocate to New Brunswick. That's not a reasonable job for anybody to take." They have done nothing to improve work environments, and nurses still cannot take a break really even to go to the toilet in a 12-hour period. "The salaries don't reflect the fact that people are risking their lives to take care of COVID patients. "The jobs that are being offered, despite what the hospital industry is saying, are not good jobs," Aiken said. Total vacancies for the whole sector were 98,000, with nursing and residential care positions representing the two largest subgroups. The biggest year-over-year increases in vacancies were among registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses, which had 7,200 more open jobs than in early 2020. In the first quarter of this year, nearly one out of five unfilled jobs in Canada was in the health-care and social assistance sector, which includes nurses, according to Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey data. You think there's a program out there to help educate more to go work in that area? No." We are in a critical shortage of nurses working in intensive care. "You know how many electricians you will need in five years. But even the construction industry has a federally funded forecasting agency that's the envy of nurses, Silas said. In a crisis like the one created in long-term care homes during COVID outbreaks, governments will respond with announcements to create thousands more personal support worker positions, she said. "In health care, what we've been doing for the last 20, 30 years is a lot of Band-Aid approaches." This is happening "because we don't know how to plan," Silas said.
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