More nurses employed by hospitals also leaving the public sector for private, for-profit agencies, says report by Canadian Institute for Health Information
The number of overtime hours worked and sick days taken by nurses across Canada spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report – a trend that experts say is continuing, as hospitals struggle to replace the burnt-out workers who quit or switched to part-time in the wake of the health crisis.
“Heavy workloads lead to more burnout, which leads to more attrition, which leads to heavier loads,” said University of Ottawa Professor Ivy Bourgeault, leader of the pan-Canadian Health Human Resources Network. “It’s what we call our vicious cycle and it needs to be interrupted.”, which goes well beyond nurses, was the top priority to emerge from a gathering of health ministers in Charlottetown last week.
The number of registered nurses who reported being self-employed or employed by an agency rose by 6 per cent in 2022, meaning 867 more were working for private companies or for themselves than the year before.CIHI concluded that, in 2021-2022, the number of nursing hours that hospitals purchased from private agencies rose by 80 per cent to 1.
But Tim Guest, the chief executive officer of the Canadian Nurses Association, said the workers he speaks to are still seeing high vacancy rates in their hospitals, despite international recruitment campaigns.
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