Winnipeg losing ‘irreplaceable’ senior nurses: former ER nurse Jackson said every area in Canada is facing a similar crunch, but Manitoba’s situation is made worse by healthcare cuts prior to the pandemic even beginning.“Following the constant closures that happened in Manitoba and within the city, we started to really see nurses leaving.
We started to see shortages, and we’re now at a point where we’re seeing a critical nursing shortage,” she said.“I’m choosing to retire, even though I would have stayed in the profession another five years if I was working in a reasonable situation where I wasn’t mandated to work 16 hours every shift I go to work.”The MNU, which represents upwards of 12,000 nurses of all designations across the province,.