“We can help”: Internationally trained nurses ready to work amid hospital staffing shortages

Filipino nurses Antonette Licuanan and Karla Ducusin talk about their desire to get to work and help support 'burned out' Canadian nurses.

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30 comments

    1. They’re firing the Canadians so that they can bring in the foreigners. This is exactly how they wanted it to play out.

    2. @IrishGirl They want to limit our rights and how they play out by manipulating the social environment.

  1. As a lifelong patient in and out of hospitals my whole life it absolutely breaks my heart every single day seeing and hearing what these nurses have to go through every day its some really sad stuff

    1. replace non compliant workers with immigrants that don’t question or ask questions just do as they’re told

    2. I agree. We need to let these unvaxxed get over Covid on their own at home on a couch. They don’t want vax, then they don’t want Healthcare worker help. 👍

  2. More than 25,000 nurses immigrated to Canada in the last 10 years. Internationally trained nurses represent 8.9% of Canada’s regulated nursing supply. Canada is investing $15 million in 2021-22 in the Foreign Credential Recognition Program to “scale up and expand existing supports”. The F.C.R. Program “funds the fast-tracking” of newcomers through the credential recognition processes and provides “funds and support services.”

    1. For years they abused them forcing many doctors and nurses into retraining after the fact. I hope they get full Canadian nurse wages and are not misused. This is what you get with no liability contracts for vaccines that let you get infected and be a spreader with a passport thing.

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