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Originally Posted by kkttsang
I work in the healthcare system also and what I do see is that the older people do move away from Vancouver to maple ridge or Langley. Then their position gets filled by either single new out of school people or people from out of country who wants to live here for a couple years. Then those out of towers moves away again or the young out of school person gets marry have kids and the again move away from Vancouver. So the turn over rate is high, and every time there's a turn over there's training time, which means we need. Extra nurse to cover while the one person is training and so we r now short because we can try to find a casual to cover but it's difficult. Smaller community hospital do not see much turnover because that's where people go to retire, much easier work than a trauma centre like vgh rch or smh. Which is why the big hospital is always short, due to the turnover mostly. And the turnover cost a lot of money when ur paying to train and find extra person to cover if u can. Retention is a difficult problem from those places
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I also have a lot of family/friends in the nursing field.
Yup, nurse turnover is super high. Not to mention certain areas like operating room or more stressful areas/traumas have even higher turnovers. There's also not many "good" or "high quality" nurses anymore, many lack proper bedside manners and compassion/communication/common sense skills.