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Spring 2024
The spring 2024 issue of Update Magazine includes a feature on minimum nurse-to-patient ratios that provides you with the background you need on this critical policy solution. Learn more about the contract gains benefiting Nurses’ Bargaining Association members and read our interview with community nurse Chris Bigelow-Nutall on the challenges of caring for those most at risk during the ongoing toxic drug crisis.
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The 2022-25 Nurses’ Bargaining Association contract is unprecedented in the history of nurses’ collective bargaining in the province. The gains in the agreement are helping to deliver the health care patients expect and the working conditions nurses need.
A new report from the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions shines light on impact of exhaustion in the workplace, and reveals how long shifts and a shortage of staff are putting patients and health-care workers at risk across the country.
Chronically short staffed and facing burnout, BC nurses have been struggling to provide patients with the care they deserve. Now, a critical policy solution promises to improve patient care and secure the nurses we need.
Ongoing unregulated drug toxicity deaths have nurses and others calling for stronger action to confront the public health crisis. Harm reduction advocates like Chris Bigelow-Nuttall say far more resources and leadership are needed so community nurses like him can effectively address the province’s ongoing toxic drug crisis.
Internationally educated nurses (IENs) are badly needed to help address the nursing shortage, yet face many unnecessary delays and hurdles. BCNU, along with the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions and World Education Services, co-hosted an evening event for IENs earlier this year to hear their stories and learn how we can better advocate for improvements to the registration process and support these nurses in their workplaces.
Author Daphne Leonie Wright always knew she was interested in writing, but it was her work as a nurse that finally encouraged her to publish a book inspired by her career in health care.