Province, union working toward travel nurse program – CBC
NSNU president Janet Hazelton hoping for a deal ‘sooner rather than later’
Oct 01, 2024
The Nova Scotia government is working on an agreement to create a provincial travel nurse program, a move that would reduce the reliance on private companies and respond to a long-standing call by the nurses’ union.
“We’re hoping to get that in place sooner rather than later,” Nova Scotia Nurses’ Union president Janet Hazelton said in an interview on Tuesday.
Hazelton said the union and government are working on a memorandum of agreement and have been meeting every two weeks for the last couple of months to finalize the arrangement, which would see Nova Scotia Health hire nurses interested in working shorter stints at different sites across the province.
“So they’ll be employees of the health authority, but they may work in Yarmouth for a bit and then go to New Glasgow,” said Hazelton.
