N.W.T. spent $5.2M last year on agency nurses, who are paid more than local nurses
Agency nurses considered unionized, so union questions apparent discrepancy An employee of the N.W.T. health authority says the territory’s use
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Many regions in Sweden struggling to cover hospital jobs over the summer
Many regional healthcare authorities say they are struggling to recruit enough nurses and other workers to cover the summer months,
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Day after nurse sit-in in western Nunavik, union denounces employer actions
The day after a sit-in by nurses in the western part of northern Quebec, their union is denouncing the employer
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Yukon nursing vacancies ‘very serious’ amid ongoing countrywide nursing shortage
Health Minister Tracy-Anne McPhee revealed that the vacancy rate in community nursing is currently over 40% The Yukon is experiencing
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Election Spotlight—Health Care in Nunavik
It was a crisis that made headlines across the country this summer—a health-care worker shortage so acute in Nunavik that
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A Nunavut health leader on how to use paramedics to solve a health staffing crisis
Training, planning and communication are key to success, says Dr. Francois de Wet The Northwest Territories is contracting paramedics to
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Pangnirtung health centre in northern Canada will be closed next month due to staff shortages
The health centre in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, will be temporarily closed next month for about one week, according to the Department of
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Nurses in Arctic Canadian village ‘exhausted’ by flu season and staff shortage, patient says
Patients in Arviat, Nunavut (Canadian east-Arctic), say nurses in the community are overworked and overwhelmed as they deal with a
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National Nursing Week – Working in the Arctic
National Nursing Week kicks off in Canada on Monday, May 12 and runs until May 18. In honour of the
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