The Toronto Star's Linwood Barclay imagines the table talk at Ontario's Ministry of Health.
Once again, Ontario is abuzz with talk of laying off nurses. Quel surprise.
When I entered nursing school in 1988, it was generally assumed that one could write one's own ticket upon successful completion of a Baccalaureate degree in Nursing. By 1992, the bottom had fallen out of the nursing workforce. I was one of only a handful of graduates who landed a full-time job within 6 months of leaving Queen's. Most of my classmates ended up in the United States, at least for a while. I followed them a couple of years later.
How many SARS-type crises will it take to make the powers that be wake up to the fact that RN's are, umm, kind of important to the health care system?
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