Nurses come, nurses go: Union says government's poor retention effort is undermining recruitment
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Health Minister Tom Osborne says Newfoundland and Labrador is seeing positive results in its work to recruit nurses, but the provincial nurses' union says the latest vacancy numbers show the province still has a retention problem.
According to Osborne, about 400 nurses have been recruited over the past fiscal year. In October 2022, he said, there were about 760 vacancies, and that number is now closer to 700.
Yvette Coffey, president of the Registered Nurses' Union Newfoundland and Labrador, says that's not good enough.
"It's good that we are recruiting and getting 400 registered nurses into the system," Coffey told CBC News. "But if we've got that many leaving that we only have a net result of 60, then we've got a bigger issue. We have a retention issue here in this province, and that's something we've been saying for a long time."
Osborne doesn't disagree. He said an issue that's affecting every industry in the province is the fact that the largest band of workers
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