According to a recent survey conducted by Manitoba’s association of regulated nurses, nurses in Manitoba are feeling pessimistic about their employment prospects.
According to Joyce Kristjansson, executive director of ARNM, “we asked nurses across the province if they thought it would be easier or harder to be a nurse over the next five years.”
“Over 80 per cent of nurses expect that it will be somewhat or significantly harder to be a nurse in Manitoba in the near future.
In the survey, nurses were asked to identify the province’s top priorities for advancing the nursing profession and the healthcare system.
“All of the evidence we received shows that nurses are not just overworked, they are concerned that the system they work in is broken and making it harder for them to provide care to patients in all care settings,” Kristjansson said.
The association is requesting that the province provide more information regarding its plans to hire and keep nurses, which were hinted at by the health minister last week.
The College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba is continuing to make changes that will enable nurses with international training to enter the workforce in the province more quickly.
The school will no longer require proof of immigration status, and other documents won’t be needed until they’re ready to register as a nurse.
According to CEO and Registrar Deb Elias, the modifications will make it easier for applicants to get started on their process without having to navigate bureaucracy.
“People can initiate their applications, get the work started to do that review and then provide English-language proficiency requirements at the end of the process,” she said, “which should decrease the time that it takes to get through the process.
The modifications were made in response to feedback from applicants who complained that this step in the registration process was frustrating.
The impact will be hard to measure until the new regulations take hold, but there are upwards of three-dozen nurses in the queue at any given time, Elias added..
new survey: Manitoba nurses are unconcerned about their employment prospects.
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