Sustaining the Canadian Nursing Workforce: Targeted Evidence-Based Reactive Solutions in Response to the Ongoing Crisis.

Inadequate staffing, excessive workloads, endemic violence and unhealthy workplaces are some of the challenges facing Canadian nurses. Leaving these issues unaddressed has had pernicious impacts on the nursing workforce: thousands of nurses across Canada have been suffering from extreme stress, anxiety and burnout, leading many of them to leave their current jobs and, for some, the profession of nursing altogether. We conducted a comprehensive …