Join the fight for more Nurses for Ontario
We all know that more registered nurses means better, safer patient care – more time with each patient, shorter waits, fewer complications and lower death rates for patients.So why is Ontario cutting registered nurses and putting patient care at risk?
- Our province has the second-lowest registered nurse to person ratio in Canada with just seven RNs per 1,000 Ontarians;
- In order to catch up to other provinces, we need to hire 17,500 more RNs;
- The government has cut more than 1,000 registered nursing jobs since 2012; and
- Research shows a direct link between the number of registered nurses and the quality of patient care; for every extra patient added to the average workload of a registered nurse, patient complications and patient death increase by 7%.
