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NS offering bonuses to nurses to keep them in health system

Front-line nurses who are working for publicly-funded employers in Nova Scotia will receive a bonus of up to $10,000, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston announced Monday. The money is a way to thank nurses while encouraging more of them to keep working in Nova Scotia, the province says. According to a Monday news release, nurses will be eligible for another $10,000 bonus next year, as long as they stay in the system and sign a two-year “return of service agreement” by the end of March 2024. “Our nurses do such an amazing job day in and day out. I’m proud…
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Tips and Tools for Success – PHE America

Education continues to evolve offering students an assortment of opportunities to earn college credit while still attending high school. In the state of Idaho, the Fast Forward Program provides students attending public schools access to $4,125.00 to help pay for dual/concurrent enrollment credits, Advanced Placement College Board, and Professional Technical Education exams and overload course fees. Dual/concurrent enrollment is a collaborative partnership between higher education and high schools to provide college courses for high school students. The high school instructors are pre-approved by the college/university academic departments to deliver college-level courses. A fundamental component of this partnership is that the…
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Alberta to create health care student spaces with $200M, 3-year spend

Breadcrumb Trail Links Politics Local News “Today we were investing in the future of each and every citizen in the province and moving towards making our vision of equitable access to health care a reality,” said the U of A medical school dean. Published March 13, 2023 • Last updated 4 days ago • 3 minute read Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides speaks at a news conference at SAIT on Feb. 15, 2022. Photo by Azin Ghaffari /Postmedia Article content Alberta’s UCP government is trumpeting its plan to spend almost $200 million over three years to train thousands of new…
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Experts call for a collection of racial and Indigenous identity in health care

A group of experts says all provinces and territories should collect data on racial and Indigenous identity to help address inequities in care, and the best way to do that is when someone applies for a health card or renews it. Doctor Andrew Pinto, lead author of a commentary published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, says Black and Indigenous patients have less access to care. He says allowing them to voluntarily provide identity data could help track racism in the health-care system. Pinto, who is founder of the non-profit Upstream Lab at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, says…
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ER staff say recruit more doctors, nurses or risk worse conditions

Resuscitating trauma patients on the floor of emergency rooms and examining sick people on stretchers instead of beds has become an increasingly tough reality for staff, says the head of a group that represents ER physicians across the country. Dr. Michael Howlett of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) said overcrowding in emergency departments has worsened as patients who fear going to hospital during the pandemic are now sicker and many more people no longer have family doctors. “Seeing patients in hallways, on floors for resuscitation, is a real crisis in health care in a first-world country,” said Howlett,…
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