Veteran and novice nurses say brutal working conditions are forcing people out of profession
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Quebec Premier François Legault said this week that the public sector is missing about 4,000 nurses.
The shortage has led to a number of emergency rooms limiting their hours or even closing their doors in hospitals across the province.
Legault compared the labour shortage to the lack of patient attendants that resulted in a crisis in long-term care homes during the first wave of the pandemic.
However, he said that the solution would have to be a different one, since new nurses cannot be trained in a matter of months.
Instead, he specified that the government is looking at any and all options to entice nurses who have left the public sector to return.
Nathalie Stake-Doucet, president of the Quebec Nursing Association, says nurses are leaving in droves due to difficult working conditions.
"Right now, it feels like the health-care system is something that's destroying our health and well-being. And I think a lot of nurses used to be afraid or nervous to leave, and they're not afraid anymore. We have nothing to lose but our health," she said.
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