Tue Aug 1, 2023 – 5:09 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Health officials expect Canada’s ongoing nursing shortage to continue and decline significantly throughout the rest of the decade, according to a release from earlier this summer.
Specifically, the health committee within the House of Commons predicted that the nation will lose more than 100,000 nurses by 2030 as “the shortage is expected to get worse.”
A briefing note dated June 19 and titled “Health Workforce Crisis” also declared that “the workforce could see a 16 percent loss in the nursing profession within the next year” alone.
“There are not enough health care workers to meet the current demand for services,” the briefing stated. “The job vacancy rate in the health care and social assistance sector was 6.3 percent for Canada as a whole.”
An estimated 40,700 nursing positions are currently open across the country. The briefing note cited “high patient workloads, lack of resources, mandatory overtime and fear of personal safety” as some of the top reasons for the “high levels of burnout, absences and turnover.”
“The Covid-19 pandemic has amplified many of the challenges facing the health workforce and it is well understood the path
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