Some nurses made hundreds of thousands of dollars above the typical salary last year, with one making more than $500K.
Alberta nurse practitioners want to play a bigger role in Alberta health care
Smith said someone working that much – in one case, possibly more than 110 hours on average every week – is bound to be exhausted and susceptible to injury.The staff shortage could be remedied with greater retention, Smith said, adding international recruitment can’t be the only focus. “If we continue to lose workforce and think that recruiting internationally is going to stabilize and reduce the demand for overtime we’re deluding ourselves,” she said.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told reporters in Calgary Monday that the province needs to be able to attract more nursing staff to get the overtime costs down. “ find a way for everybody to have a better quality of life and better working conditions so that we are able to staff appropriately,” said the premier.“There’s been so much frustration in how the frontline experience has been, we’ve got a number of nurses who only want to work part time or casual because of burnout and we’ve got to make it a pleasant place to work so that people will come back in.
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