Winnipeg ER doctors pen letter to province, health authorities over senior nurses quitting “The workload has become something that’s just, it’s really not manageable for nurses to do what (needs to be done) at the standard that we set for ourselves,” she said.While Gebhardt left just two months ago, she watched as others quit before her and said she knows she wasn’t the last one.“We’ve lost nurses who were assets to the department that are irreplaceable,” she said. “We’re losing the people, we’re driving them away in this current times and we’re going to have a huge hole to fill if we don’t change it.”She said Winnipeg has suffered chronic nursing shortages for years and the COVID-19 pandemic has just exacerbated an already unravelling.