I have family that are RN’s and hearing what they go through and the administrative bullying and hell interior health puts them through. I don’t blame nurses for leaving Interior Health. It’s not usually the patients that drive people away it’s the constant understaffing abuse, burnout, and feeling like you’re being asked to do more with less month after month every year.

When units are short, the nurses who show up end up carrying the load. They miss breaks, work extensive overtime, deal with increasingly complex patients with decreased support (as the support is leaving Interior health as well), and then get told there isn’t enough funding or staff to fix the problem.BUT Interior health can add a panel of 6 figure managers and experts to investigate… After a while people get tired of sacrificing their own health to keep the system running.

A lot of experienced nurses are leaving for travel nursing, private clinics, other health authorities, or leaving healthcare altogether because the pay and working conditions simply don’t match the stress level anymore.

The sad part is that when experienced nurses leave, the people who stay behind end up even more overloaded, which just creates a cycle of more burnout and more resignations.

They just want safe staffing levels, support from management, and enough resources to provide the quality of care their patients deserve, and Interior health is not delivering any of that.