With hundreds of psychiatric nurse positions unfilled in B.C., Vancouver’s mayor is modifying his promise to hire 100 mental health nurses, who he said would work alongside 100 new police officers in the Downtown Eastside.
The goalposts of Mayor Ken Sim’s promise have expanded to include a wider range of staff, according to Vancouver Coastal Health, which confirmed it's no longer just psychiatric nurses the city plans to help fund in the Downtown Eastside, but also peer support workers, social workers and Indigenous team members.
In the eyes of one registered psychiatric nurse who's seen the staffing shortage first hand, that's an unsurprising decision.
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