Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) have been at the forefront of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic as the largest regulated health professional workforce in Ontario long-term care (LTC) homes (Odom-Forren, 2020). The LTC sector has been significantly impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic due in part to insufficient processes for pandemic preparedness and the historical challenges, such as chronic staffing shortages, low staffing levels, heavy workloads, punitive measures for staff who are sick, structural deficiencies, and lack of infection control processes (Marrocco et al., 2021;McGilton et al., 2020). Awareness of chronic under staffing and funding of the LTC sector came to the fore with the Romanow Report (Romanow, 2000). Two decades later, the demand