B.C. moves to attract foreign nurses to overcome critical staffing crisis
B.C. moves to attract foreign nurses to overcome critical staffing crisis
British Columbia’s most recent labour market outlook states that the province will need more than 26,000 nurses by 2031.
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By Fabian Dawson
Desperate for healthcare workers, British Columbia announced today a series of initiatives, including bursaries of $16,000 each for 1,500 internationally educated nurses (IENs), to enter the province’s health system.
The $9 million in bursaries will go towards helping IENs get registered and licensed faster in B.C., the provincial ministry of health said in a statement
The province’s most recent labour market outlook states that the province will need more than 26,000 nurses by 2031, states the BC Nurses Union (BCNU).
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