Action Alert: There’s a nursing crisis – what are your candidates’ plans? Ask them!

On May 12, during Nursing Week, RNAO released Nursing Through Crisis, a report that sets out in stark terms the depth of Ontario’s nursing crisis:

  • 75% of nurses are burnt out

     
  • Significant minorities of nurses report severe or extremely severe levels of depression (16.7%), anxiety (20%) and stress (15.5%)

     
  •  69% of nurses intend to leave their position within five years and 42% of those intend to leave nursing profession altogether or retire

Join us! Make sure that the nursing crisis is an election issue in your riding. Demand that candidates in your riding address the nursing crisis – now.

Copy will be sent to the following:

Hon. Doug Ford
premier of Ontario and provincial minister of intergovernmental affairs
Andrea Horwath
Ontario New Democratic Party, MPP
Steven Del Duca
Mike Schreiner
MPP and leader of the Green Party of Ontario
Your local candidates in the upcoming 2022 Ontario general election