A chronic shortage of specially trained nurses kept overtime costs for B.C.’s two largest health authorities at more than $70 million a year, with the two hardest-working nurses taking home an astounding $125,000 in overtime pay.
“The health care system is running on nursing overtime, it depends on nurses working the overtime,” said B.C. Nurses Union president Gayle Duteil. “Sixteen-hour shifts are the new norm.”
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