I’m stopping. I’ve had enough.

On the same day Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones said the province has “not seen a mass exodus of nurses https://www.cp24.com/news/ontario-health-minister-s-denial-of-nurses-mass-exodus-feels-painful-and-dismissive-for-some-1.6176052” leaving the profession – a remark some nurses say was “dismissive” and “painful” to hear, I stopped my active nursing license.

I say stopped, not resigned. It’s a more active description of my decision.

Like countless nurses, I’ve had enough.

Like my hospital colleagues I have listened and watched as nurses who are working in what can only be described as a war zone become ill or get COVID or burnout – or all three. It is highly likely their mental health may be permanently damaged.

Decades of government neglect to the health care system is now patently apparent. It’s safe to say nurses are now politicized, and they are angry.

It’s not unlike the government’s decades-long neglect to housing. |Read more https://rabble.ca/columnists/im-stopping-ive-had-enough/|
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