Unfortunately the number of nursing jobs at any one time may be affected
by funding as influenced by provincial politics, world economics, and the collective bargaining process of the nursing labor unions.
These are just some of the political nuances of nursing in Canada.
Feel free to make your own contribution about the labor market for nursing jobs in Canada.
Feel free to make a comment and have a discussion.
Canada has been weathering the economic crisis of late 2008 and early 2009 very well but it is not totally unaffected. There have been significant job losses
and two of the big automakers employing some 20,000 people were given big taxpayer bail outs in
order to keep people working.
Thankfully the banking system is one of the best (if not the best in the world so things are OK there.)
Governments respond to fiscal crisis by cutting spending. Social and health programs have been
affected
leading some to say there is no current nursing shortage in Canada at all.
All predictions are still for a shortage in the nursing labor market as the supply cannot keep up with the escalating demand for projected for the future.
Of course one of the best ways to make a nursing shortage go away is simply to eliminate nursing jobs!
and magically we have enough nurses for all the nursing jobs in Canada.
Of course this has not happened across the nation, because it is provincial governments that administer health
care in Canada. Some provinces have stopped hiring altogether and other areas still need nurses for vacant positions.
The positions that are available, however, may not be entry level nursing jobs.
The various provincial health care job sites of the 13 provincial and territorial governments still
show a wide variety of nursing jobs in Canada. On close examination however, they are not
entry level nursing jobs. This is likely to create a situation where new graduates are saying "There are no nursing jobs in Canada."
It is complicated. There is no doubt that the number of nursing jobs has declined as provincial
governments have adopted a "wait and see attitude" instead of filling vacant nursing jobs immediately.
However, this is most likely a temporary situation. All forecasts are still for an acute nursing shortage
in the long term, and all predictions still forecast a nursing shortage for the future.
Certainly, once the nurses already in the system fill all the positions that are posted, then entry level nursing jobs will become available.
I will be monitoring the current nursing shortage in Canada over the longer term with blog posts here on this page.
Feel free to comment or add to the discussion.
Your contribution can help to inform the many nurses from around the world who land on this website
because they are interested in becoming a nurse in Canada.
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