The Impact of an Aging Nursing Workforce on the Canadian Health Care System Introduction Nurses are the most critical personnel in any health care facility. This is because they have an obligational responsibility of ensuring that patients receive quality care. To achieve this responsibility, they have to spend most of their time with patients monitoring their progress, performing diagnostic tests, administering medications, educating and supporting them, recording errors that may result to adverse outcomes (Twigg, Gelder, & Myers, 2015), among other duties and responsibilities. In Canada, nurses constitute the largest workforce in the health care industry. According to Statistics Canada (2019), nursing and social assistance was the most populated industry in Canada in 2016, representing 13 per cent