A prescription for nurse burnout

Janet Hazelton has been reluctant to sound the alarm bells in her role as President of the Nova Scotia Nurses Union. She says in her 20 years as a labour leader, she didn't want the public to lose confidence in the system. And she didn't want them to be afraid to get medical help if they needed it. But she's reversed course on that over the last 12 months. She says two years into the pandemic and nurses have never been as battered and bruised and they've had enough. She weighs in on some of the things that are happening with recruitment. And she discusses what needs to happen if the province wants to retain these front line health care professionals.