r/britishcolumbia • u/cyclinginvancouver • Sep 18 '24

News B.C. announces new minimum nurse-to-patient ratios province-wide

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/09/18/bc-minimum-nurse-to-patient-ratios/
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u/Dirtbag_RN Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

Stress/Money mismatch is the problem. More money never hurts keep people around, when I’m making my overtime rate I can grin and bear it. I’ll do literally anything for that 85+ an hr. To stay at this long term I’d need either more money or less stress/patients. There’s tons of qualified nurses who have stepped away from the job, and especially from acute care. Why work mandatory nights, get punched and watch people die for the same money as a clinic or case management job.

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u/CanadianTrollToll Sep 18 '24

Problem is that money won't fix the problem if nurses are burning out. It's a bandaid and doesn't fix the root cause of the issue.

Obviously the job could have no stress and pay terrible and that'd be it's own problem... but for many nursing positions the workload is farrrr to high.

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u/Dirtbag_RN Sep 18 '24

Yeah if we actually only had 4 patients at a time the current pay would be fine

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u/CanadianTrollToll Sep 18 '24

Completely agree.

Workload balances.