Talk:Nursing shortage in Canada

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This article was created as fork from the article Nursing shortage. This editor created the section "Canada" and its subsections and added the content as the sole editor until 1 November 2022. The history for this first iteration of this article on 1 November can be found at the Nursing shortage's History page.

I strongly encourage any interested Wikipedia editors to add to and improve this article. Thank you.Oceanflynn (talk) 19:25, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

This article seems to be mostly projection based (e.g. next 5 to 15 year) stuff and not based on what the size of the actual shortage is. Also, while there is no denying there is a nursing shortage, the numbers seem to be by interest groups and associated associations and unions, so the projections seem wildly over-estimated. For instance, the BMJ article listed from 2000 listed a Canadian shortage (not including Quebec) of between 59000 and 113000 by 2011, with these levels being considered "conservative". By 2007, the CNA released a report stating of around 11000, but growing to up to 60000 by 2022. I have tried searching myself, but there seems to be no good estimate of current levels for the shortage. There are a number of imperfect methods (such as RN/Population, overtime rates, etc.) that I think would be at least better to quantify how much of a change really exists. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.192.209.16 (talk) 11:37, 26 June 2023 (UTC)