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Canada has been looking outside its borders to fill a critical nurse shortage, but recruitment efforts are leaving Ghana’s hospitals short-staffed. Now Ghana’s nurse association says Canada should foot the bill for their training.
I said it was shitty for the provinces to do that versus providing more slots in education and higher wages for current medical staff. Instead they steal staff from poor nations and feel no guilt for doing that … which is colonialism at its core.
Yes, that’s a fair point. But even with an investment in better wages, training and more education a critical shortage will take at least a couple years to be mitigated, and a couple years doesn’t seem to be a viable option right now.
versus providing more slots in education
The nurses are wanted now, not years down the line.
and higher wages for current medical staff.
Are you under the impression that current medical staff are working at only partial capacity and more money will see them step up their game? That’s a brutal insult to them.
No, we have a shortage because people are leaving nursing due to the high stress and low pay. I know multiple people who quit nursing, or moved somewhere with better pay, so the low pay is definitely causing the shortage.
people are leaving nursing due to the high stress and low pay
No amount of money is going to keep someone who has burned out on high stress, but this does nothing to increase the labour available anyway, unless you think nurses have “quite quitted” and will only do more work for more pay. But that is an insult to think that they have done that as clearly that is not the case. So, I’m not sure you’ve made yourself clear.
we have a shortage
A shortage is a situation where an external mechanism prevents price from rising. If we truly have a shortage, paying more is fundamentally not an option. Of course, we don’t have a shortage and I’m not sure why you are trying to claim that we do. Wishing you could have something is not a shortage. If it were, there would be effectively nothing not in a shortage situation, leaving it to be a meaningless term.
Are you under the impression that current medical staff are working at only partial capacity and more money will see them step up their game?
No I am not. I am aware that many have to work at 2 or 3 different places to make a full-time wage and few (if any) receive benefits, which leads to them changing over to private companies where they’re paid well, make their own hours and have benefits.
