Sometimes your decision as a rural nurse is dependent upon the resources and supports you have available to you. Rural nursing is much different. Sometimes you make decisions based on the best choice you have for your patients in the moment.
— Southern Nurse
It’s always about money. No matter the proposals we make about investing in the community, we are constantly met with financial constraints and disappointment.
— The Pas Nurse
It’s time to start streamlining paperwork to actually see what’s happening out there. Nurses have paperwork burnout.
— Interlake Nurse
Selkirk is the only ER that has a ventilator. Yikes.
— Gimli Nurse
Look, they are admitting people into the hallways because they’re in such dire straits.
— St. Boniface Nurse
We need to invest in more than part-time mentors. We need to invest in brand new nurses. Especially ones coming fresh out of school to work in the North. Supporting junior staff as they learn is essential for retention.
— Northern Nurse
9 managers in 9 years in one unit is a major problem.
— Northern Nurse
Why is this government not using University College of the North to allow nurses to stay and work in their communities to advance their education? This is a huge barrier to recruiting and retaining rural and northern nurses. They need to stop putting barriers up in our way!
— Thompson Nurse
If I get to eat and go to the bathroom on a shift, it’s a bloody miracle.
— Thompson Nurse
The trickle effect of city patients, who are tired of the long wait times, is them driving out to close communities like Selkirk. What used to be 22 patients in the ED waiting is now 36. There are no shortcuts anywhere.
— Interlake Nurse
Why does it have to take a death for leaders to take the systemic challenges seriously?
— Interlake Nurse
If you’re going to survive out here, you have to grow thick skin. Because our patients need people who can stand up for their rights.
— Gimli Nurse