Nunavut MLAs worry agency nurse compensation may discourage full-time employment
As Southern employment agencies continue to provide temporary nurses for the Nunavut health care system, several Nunavut MLAs are worried
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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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Nunavut sees new crop of teachers, nurses as students graduate from college
‘It’s a good feeling to be done school and being able to serve Nunavummiut,’ says graduate It took nearly eight
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Provincial efforts to fast-track nurse licensing could help the Yukon
Quicker licensing elsewhere means quicker licensing in the territory, says health minister The Yukon government says it’s on board with
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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 government offers cash bonuses to attract and keep nurses
‘An awful lot of other people deserve and should get something like this as well,’ union says The Yukon government
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Nunavik: Demands for health network to be put under trusteeship
“We’re not sinking: we’re sunk.” A worker shortage, coupled with poor management of the Nunavik health care system, is creating
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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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Nurses decry ‘unsustainable’ conditions at hospital in Canada’s Northwest Territories
Operating rooms staffed with fewer than half the nurses that should be working, according to union Nurses in the Northwest
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On the frontlines of health care : A Nunavik, Canada nurse remembers relocation, racism and the rewards of healing
The first time Minnie Akparook saw and heard a plane, she started running. “My sealskin boots fell off. I was
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Northern nurse receives award for service in Arctic Canada
A nurse working in Nunavik, the Inuit region of northern Quebec, was among three recipients who received awards on Monday
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Blog: Telehealth in the Arctic – Unfulfilled potential
Telehealth is going mainstream. That was the message from a pair of recent stories in Wired magazine, an InTouch Health
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