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On July 12, the NSNU welcomed the Federal Minister of Health, Jean-Yves Duclos, to the office in Burnside for a discussion on the nursing crisis.
The Honourable Minister met with nurses from various backgrounds and regions of Nova Scotia, asking each of them about their personal experiences and recommendations on how to resolve challenges within the nursing workforce.
Along with Minister Duclos, Members of Parliament from Nova Scotia attended the discussion, hearing testimony from several frontline nurses about the dire situation created by the nursing shortage in every sector of care. Work-life balance, vacation denials, burnout, excessive overtime, workload, working short, reassignments and deployments, COVID recovery, violence and abuse in the workplace, compassion fatigue, an exodus of nurses, emotional distress and physical injury, and more are of grave concern to those are struggling within the system.
Thank you to the Minister and Members of Parliament, Lena Metlege Diab (Halifax West), Darren Fisher (Dartmouth-Cole Harbour), and Jaime Battiste (Sydney-Victoria) for your time and attention to these important issues.
