‘This is the Canada nobody sees’: PIPSC president visits nursing stations in remote First Nations northern communities, understands ‘why so many nurses are walking away’

Kyle Fournier, spokesperson for Indigenous Services Canada, says the department is taking an 'all hands-on-deck approach' with First Nations leadership, provincial and industry partners, and healthcare agencies to 'identify and implement tangible solutions' to nursing shortages on reserves.

Ginette Tardif, a labour relations officer for PIPSC, passes through a piece of plastic used to separate the COVID unit at the Fort Hope nursing station. Tariff, along with PIPSC president Jennifer Carr, were visiting to asses the nursing crisis in Northern Canada. Photograph courtesy of Ryan Walter Wagner/PIPSC

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

October 17, 2022

Following a tour involving visits to nursing stations in remote First Nations northern communities, Jennifer Carr, president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC), says she "felt like I was in areas that were so under-serviced and so forgotten.” “This is the Cana...

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