¶ … nursing shortage in Ontario has the potential to have a catastrophic impact both on the health of patients and the health of nurses. Nurses as a whole are committed to providing excellent care and upholding the standards of their profession. However, when they are operating in facilities that are chronically understaffed, achieving this goal can seem impossible. Nurses are forced to oversee insupportably high patient loads and to work long hours, literally doing the work of two people with one body. Despite this fact, "almost 90 per cent (89%) of patients in Ontario rated their nursing care as excellent or good is the high cost that nurses often pay to provide that care" (MacKinnon 2001). But as nurses retire and age out of the profession and are not replaced by new nurses, the shortage will grow even more critical. While nursing shortages are common in the United States as well, Canada faces a particular challenge. "Health experts warn Canada could face a repeat of the 1990s, when health-care cuts by the provinces drove as many as 27,000 nurses to the U.S. alone to look for work" (Spencer 2010). The United States has proven...
This creates a vicious cycle: the more nurses are forced to overwork and to take care of more patients than they can handle, the more nurses decide to leave the profession. Even though Ontario patients have praised nursing care, there have still been patient complaints about understaffing, which can lead to more frequent readmission because patients are not appropriately monitored. "Almost one-third of patients complained that their call buttons were not answered promptly" (MacKinnon 2001). Patient satisfaction with nurse's efforts should not make nursing organizations complacent about the shortage.
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