SaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for November 7, 2023 | SaltWireJanet Hazelton says for the first time in a while, she’s “cautiously optimistic” for the future of nurses in Nova Scotia.Hazelton said while there are roughly 1,500 vacant nursing positions in Nova Scotia, our province isn’t the only one facing a nursing shortage.
“Patients and their families are losing their patience and they’re more agitated and aggravated by the fact that they have to wait two hours or three hours or six hours or however long they have to wait, and oftentimes they will take that out on the nurse,” she said.Hazelton said she’s pleased people have been charged, so hopes people will think twice before they are abusive towards health-care workers.
,” said Hazelton, while also acknowledging travel nurse opportunities are attractive to some people, who are paid three to four times as much as Nova Scotia nurses. Houston acknowledged people have a right to be mobile and work “wherever they want” across Canada, noting there are different opportunities in each province.
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