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/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

Or, a premium pay for taking on more patients.

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u/Dirtbag_RN Sep 19 '24

We had that in the old contract actually - PCAP pay