Anecdotally, and I don't work in the health care system so may be completely off the mark. But years ago when my kids were born (Foothills Hospital) they had a job board with all the various postings. Not a single FT nursing position available, everything was part time. Fast forward to today, my niece graduated from nursing two years ago and no FT positions to be found. She's worked temporary contract and multiple jobs to make up FT hours. So it seems not much has changed in 23 years, this is not a new issue. Why is this happening?? I don't know but have heard (again anecdotally) that the nursing profession is quite flexible with work hours partly due to being heavily dominated by females. Changing to 0.8, 0.5 time etc. to meet family demands at home. This is both a blessing and a curse it seems. Great to have that flexibility for those that need it but it creates thousands of part time positions that are harder to fill, and nurses need to piece together multiple positions to make a FT wage. That's not ideal either.
Might be completely off the mark and I don't know what the solution is. Just my observations.
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