“I cannot do this”: The exhaustion of the nurses may be the next health care crisis in Ontario

An increasing number of nurses in Ontario says they reach the point of collapse under the province’s tense health care system.

Quoted from low wages, exhaustion, and irresponsible job responsibilities, nurses warn that without an urgent procedure, the burdened health care system may decrease.

Alia Haji, a nurse and founder of NP Circle, a organization that supports nurses in Canada, said that the current reality is not just frustration – it is a crisis.

She said: “The nurses have entered the nurses to fill these gaps over the past few years, but we have done much more.” “We are running increasing amounts of patient care without the support we really need to keep it.”

A national survey conducted by NP Circle found that only one out of every eight practitioners of Ontario nurses were “very satisfied” for their jobs.

Almost one in five were “unhappy” or “not satisfied”, and approximately 78 percent indicated compensation as their most important concern.

“The whole reason I created a NP circle and this poll started is that there was no space for nursing practitioners to communicate and feel support in a system that often feels isolated,” Hagi explained. “The data directly reflects that this is really concerned.”

Claudia Mariano, the pensioner of the retired nurse and has more than 25 years of experience in the job, said that resentment is common in trade.

“When I started a nurse several years ago, we used to defend more effort, but we did not celebrate these increases in the scope of practice anymore because the increase in responsibility and accountability has not been fulfilled with an increase in compensation, support or even respect,” said Mariano, director of membership in NP.

“There is this unwritten basis that since you are a nurse, you will only do the altruistic tendencies …

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More than half of the Ontario nurses who were included in the survey said they were thinking about leaving the profession – or expressed dangerous indicators that they might be.

“When you look at some of the responses written in the data, nearly half of the respondents wrote a kind of commentary of the free text, saying they will leave,” Mariano said.

Remember to read a response, “I can’t do this anymore … I will leave the next year or two years because I cannot do this.”

In addition to fears related to wages, approximately one of every three practitioners in Ontario reported that mental health and exhaustion were among the best professional challenges.

Alix Consorti, a nurse in the field of primary care that has more than a decade of experience, said the results of the survey were amazing.

She said, “It was amazing to see the numbers.” “It is very frightening. These are my colleagues and friends … not a solo practitioner issue. This is a system problem.”

According to the announcement by the Canadian Council of the organizers of the nurses registered last year, a new framework is expected to be implemented throughout the Canadian in 2026, making it easier for NP to register anywhere in the country.

Change would enhance mobility and remove the barriers on the place where nurses can practice, but it raised a completely new set of concerns about keeping employment in Ontario.

“The pathways of the nurses … they leave to go to other provinces where the wages are better, and this will only increase with this new legislation.” “Therefore, we are in the real human resource crisis here.”

As a result, patients are paying the price, said Irene Mignellit, a nurse who has more than 40 years of experience.

She said: “It is a stressful course. On the one hand, the nurses try to advance and fill the gaps as the lack of the family doctor, and on the other hand, can cause them to burn and want to leave the field.”

“As family doctors continue to leave, more patients are dropped in a degree of millions of people who are currently not currently the primary care provider.”

Ontario is already looking for ways to connect an estimated 2.2 million people with a regular primary care provider-which leaves many dependent on crowded emergency rooms or walking clinics.

In a statement to Global News, an Ontario Minister of Health spokesman said that the boycott continues to invest in the workforce.

They said: “We have added 150 new seats from the nurses, and they have removed administrative tasks that are unnecessary to save service providers 95,000 hours, and expand practicing practitioners.” “Our government will continue to be a strong partner for practitioners.”

Despite this work, the defenders said that adding seats will not make a big difference if people do not want to stay in the job.

Without serious repairs and better compensation, they are concerned that the boycott may soon face a new health care challenge.

“We are not only supporting the system,” said Hagi. “We are helping to stick to it.”

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