Healing
Canadian
HealthcareIdeas to Improve Nursing Enrolment & Retention
Canada is short 117,000 nurses. This is the book about what we do next.
By Kathleen Boucher, RN
“In 2022, an ER in Perth, Ontario closed for three weeks — not from disaster, but from a lack of nurses. It wasn’t an isolated story. It was a warning.”
About the Book
A Call to Action for Canada’s Nursing Crisis
Canada is projected to be short 117,000 nurses by 2030 — and the warning signs have been building for decades. Healing Canadian Healthcare is Kathleen Boucher’s answer: part memoir, part manifesto, part practical roadmap.
Drawing on nearly fifty years of nursing, Kathleen pulls back the curtain on what nurses really do, why so many are leaving the profession, and what’s already working in hospitals across the country to bring them back. Most importantly, she shows readers what they can do to help — whether or not they ever put on scrubs.
About the Author
Kathleen Boucher, RN
Kathleen Boucher has been a registered nurse since 1977, with thirty-six years spent in intensive care. Over the course of her career she has worked in medical, surgical, cardiovascular, and emergency settings, as well as post-anesthesia and combined medical-surgical ICUs.
Healing Canadian Healthcare is her call to action for the profession she loves — and the colleagues she’s spent a lifetime standing beside.