Not Okay Survey: Long-Term Care

Nurses working in long-term care are dealing with chronic staffing shortages, physical assault, verbal abuse, moral distress, exposure to non-prescribed substances and deteriorating health and safety conditions. This is unacceptable. These challenges are harming nurses and putting the residents they care for at risk.

BCNU’s long-term care Not Okay survey is gathering firsthand accounts from members working in the long-term care sector.

The survey is a safe space for nurses to speak truthfully about what they’re experiencing – so that BCNU can hold employers and health authorities accountable.

Do you work in long-term care? Participate today and help build the case for urgent action, meaningful investments and stronger protections for you and your residents.

TAKE THE SURVEY

Visit BCNU’s Seniors Deserve Better campaign page for more information and resources.

Not Okay Survey 2024

Earlier in the spring of 2024, BCNU launched the original 'Not Okay' survey to hear directly from members working in acute care, community, and other practice settings outside of long-term care. The survey garnered close to four thousand responses and provided a sobering snapshot of unsafe conditions, chronic short staffing, and escalating violence across the province — reaffirming that what nurses and health care workers are being asked to endure is Not Okay.

Your feedback has also laid the groundwork for the union's continued advocacy and helped inform BCNU's push for urgent system-wide solutions.

Any member who has experienced a workplace incident should report it to the Provincial Workplace Health Contact Centre at 1-866-922-9464, even if there is no injury or immediate illness. Employers have a legislated responsibility to investigate every incident that is reported to this number.