It was predicted in 2017 that in Canada, the registered nursing employment will be growing but it has been a wrong prediction. There is an alarming rate of burnout in Canada. Over the years the vacancy in the nursing profession has been increasing leading to a shortage of nurses in Canada. According to a 2010 report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the number of working registered nurses (RNs) jumped by 9 percent, or 27,000, in the previous five years. The total nursing workforce is now more than 348,000. Unfortunately, the rate of RN growth is still lagging. Despite the rise in salaries, nurses are preferring to work in high-pressure environments. Nursing is a difficult job with lives at stake and that only gets more difficult as nurses are asked to do more with less.
It has been reported that nurses have to do work regularly. Young nurses, in particular, don’t want to be “held captive to their employer” and stuck in situations where they’re working too many long hours and feeling defeated at the end of a long and grueling shift. While some nurses have access to pension plans and benefits and earn in the U.S averaging $45.12 per hour, So there is fear of more nurses moving out of Canada. It is important to make an efficient plan and rules to make the nursing job more desirable.