Public system spent at least $1.5-billion on private nurses last year, study finds : canada

[+] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, retaining nursing is a big deal. In Ontario, I think we have 150,000 nurses. The government's approach to nurses leaving the workforce post COVID because of poor working conditions has been to graduate more nurses. But a new-grad nurse is not as competent as a nurse with 10 years of experience, and so the 'graduate more nurses' approach does not offset the competency drain from any excessive churn of experienced nurses

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Money changers and rent seekers generally will take 25-75% of the fee depending on contract is structured.

Parasites getting these contracts would likely have to have connection to the ruling regime to obtain contracts along with favourable terms.

Corruption 101

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

On the plus side, the province has demonstrated that the work nurses do is worth that much to it. Should be fun pointing that out in contracr negotiations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

the labour is not priced on value it brings, labour is priced on what slave driver gets away with.

but yes contract is priced based on what value the money changer can extract from the sate via corrupt process.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Mike Harris' wife says "Thank You".

If you want to look up why sociopaths are so desperate to get into political offices, just look at the example of griftmeister Mike Harris.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am a disability support worker, and would like to add a little context that may affect how this expense is perceived. One of the types of in home support for the very disabled, injured or the very old, is nursing.

Some types of in home care require a nurse - administering certain medication, handling a ventilator, wound care, etc.

If there are not nurses in the community offering these services the alternative is that these people go to the hospital for the round the clock care they need - a much more expensive proposition.

[+] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Ah, do facilities hire private nurses? Like traveling nurses? I had only heard the term "private nurse" as in one who is privately hired to work in the home.

Edit: Ah, they do indeed, I have now read the article, apologies. I read private nurses and assumed it meant in home nurses. It seems in Canada the term applies to travel nurses or agency nurses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Private" here is being used to mean "private sector", not "personal".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yes I get that now, in Australia the term "private nurse" is used exclusively as far as I know to refer to private in home nurses.

If I google "private nurses Australia" it is clear this is the case, and a company I have worked through is one of the top results.

If I google "private nurses Canada" the results all refer to agency nurses like the above article.

My mistake, I made an assumption without actually reading the article before commenting.

[+] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I would be curious how costly is the overhead + social charges, but I am pretty sure that nurses would make more than at their private agency.

Like even if we split that in half to be really conservative, that would be a bit more than 65$/h.

Also, I am pretty sure that no nurse got. 33% raise. So some fat fingers got into the cookie jar.

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