BC Nurses Contract Aims to Recruit, Retain and Increase Nurse-to-Patient Ratio

B.C. Premier David Eby (L), and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talk with psychiatric nursing students Derin Omojokun (3rd L), and Abdul Amarkhil (R), at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, in Langley, B.C., on March 1, 2023.

British Columbia will become the first Canadian province to adopt a nurse-to-patient ratio as part of its plan to improve workload standards in public health.

The move is a key plank in the tentative contract reached between the province and the Nurses Bargaining Association last week.