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New Fund in Canada Aims to Create Jobs for Nursing Graduates

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)" /><meta name="CREATED" content="20070227;22412100" /><meta name="CHANGED" content="16010101;0" /> <style type="text/css"> </style>As far as I know, there is no job scarcity for graduating nurses in the United States but I guess the situation is a bit different in Canada.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), the union representing 53,000 registered nurses, hopes that the multi-million-dollar fund announced by <strong>Canadian Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care</strong> will help create permanent jobs for new nursing graduates.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">“This is a good thing for Ontario’s nursing graduates,” says Linda Haslam-Stroud, RN, ONA President. “We need to bring more registered nurses into our health-care system, and while these are not permanent, full-time positions being created, the announcement does allow new graduates six months of experience on the front lines, which will be invaluable experience for them.�</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">For further information: Ontario Nurses’ Association, Sheree Bond, (416) 964-8833, ext. 2430.</p> <p class="postmetadata alt"> <small> This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 at 11:44 pm and is filed under <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=9" title="View all posts in Canada" rel="category tag">Canada</a>, <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?cat=10" title="View all posts in Good News" rel="category tag">Good News</a>. You can follow any responses to this entry through the <a href='http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?feed=rss2&p=92'>RSS 2.0</a> feed. You can <a href="#respond">leave a response</a>, or <a href="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/wp-trackback.php?p=92" rel="trackback">trackback</a> from your own site. </small> </p> </div> </div>   <h3 id="respond">Leave a Reply</h3> <form action="http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform"> <p><input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="" size="22" tabindex="1" /> <label for="author"><small>Name (required)</small></label></p> <p><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" size="22" tabindex="2" /> <label for="email"><small>Mail (will not be published) (required)</small></label></p> <p><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="" size="22" tabindex="3" /> <label for="url"><small>Website</small></label></p>  <p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="100%" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p> <p><input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" /> <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="92" /> </p> </form> </div> <hr /> <div id="footer">  <p> Sagent Healthstaff Blog is proudly powered by <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> <br /><a href="feed:http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?feed=rss2">Entries (RSS)</a> and <a href="feed:http://www.sagenths.us/sageblog/?feed=comments-rss2">Comments (RSS)</a>.  </p> </div> </div>  </body> </html>