300 Nurses To Ease Sask Nursing Shortage

{mosgoogle}A delegation that was composed of officials from the Saskatchewan's government 5 health regions the Saskatchewan registered Nurses Association and the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses took flight to the Philippines Last February as a stop relieve the Nursing Shortage of the Province of Saskatchewan by attempting to gain approval of nurses with competitive wages and a compensation package as a results government has recruited approximately 300 new Nurses from the Philippines . Some of the new hired Nurses were originally heading to United States but U.S. really closed a great extent of their borders to a large number of these new hired nurses due to the present political environment with the approaching election, resulting to change in heading to Canada . With as much as $5,000 offered by the province of Saskatchewan for relocation and travel expenses of nurses, approximately 300 new nurses were recruited from the Philippines.

The recruitment trip from Saskatchewan does not repair the entire issue of the nursing shortage. A large amount of work on keeping the graduates of Saskatchewan in its possession must be needed to diminish the deficit.

The recruitment trip from Saskatchewan will not result to a brain-drain in hospitals in the Philippines for there are more nurses trained than nurses needed. Only 15 to 20 percent were needed in the Philippines.

The nursing surplus in the Philippines will serve as something that fills the nursing shortage in Saskatchewan. The Philippines will be the exporter of nurses and Saskatchewan will be the importer of nurses.