NPs say they can help fill a growing need for primary care in major urban centres, but the jobs just aren\u0027t there.
Tara Schmalenberg says some NPs can’t find jobs in Saskatchewan that wouldn’t require them to uproot their lives and move to small rural or remote corners of the province, even though there is a mounting need for such professionals in other places.
NPs like Schmalenberg are nurses who complete extra education to let them diagnose patients, prescribe medications and perform other tasks, a sort of Swiss army knife job that makes them integral in rural and remote communities.Dr. Mary Ellen Labrecque, an NP and professor at the University of Saskatchewan, says current graduates already have trouble finding jobs, in part because they’re not willing or able to uproot their lives to move, despite financial incentives for doing so.
But Leggott, the president-elect of the NP association, says her efforts to bring such a job to her home of Lanigan failed. As a result, she drives 112 kilometres each way to a job in Foam Lake. She likes the work but not the commute, which requires her kids to stay in daycare for 11 hours a day, she said.She worries the geographic constraints are keeping people out of the profession entirely, or causing them to take jobs for which they are overqualified.
The Ministry of Health conceded it hasn’t happened yet. In 2019, Statistics Canada said 17.2 per cent of Saskatchewan residents had no such provider. Some believe the problem has grown worse over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.Article content
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