Help wanted: Nova Scotia has 2,165 health-care vacancies
CBC
A new office dedicated to hiring health-care workers in Nova Scotia needs to take immediate action to address employees who feel overworked and undervalued if it hopes to fill hundreds of vacancies, say union leaders representing paramedics and nurses in the province.
On a recent day, there were an estimated 2,165 health-care jobs available in Nova Scotia, including 1,086 registered nurses and 27 paramedics, according to numbers provided by the Office of Health Care Professionals Recruitment and EHS, the province's ambulance service.
Those numbers change daily. They also don't show the full picture, according to Michael Nickerson, business manager of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 727, which represents paramedics in the province.
"We do know that paramedics are leaving the profession altogether or they're leaving the province to go work in other provinces and go make more money," said Nickerson, adding that he'd like to see the new office address those issues right off the bat.
"Paramedics need to feel valued and they need to feel appreciated."
He estimates another 200 paramedics are on sick leave for physical or mental health reasons. That would represent about 18 per cent of the paramedic workforce.
Likewise, Janet Hazelton, president of the Nova Scotia Nurses' Union, said the numbers don't reflect the many vacancies in the workforce.
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