My daughter nurses in palliative care in the AHS. She has told me that all her co-workers have spent the week crying and in turmoil after learning of the 24 job losses announced.
The P.E.I. government is no longer guaranteeing new nursing graduates a job. The province says the demand for nurses has dropped.
Over the last 13 years, Prince Edward Island has accepted every student who applies to the Bachelor of Nursing Sponsorship Program.
The RCMP have arrested a 38 year-old woman accused of stealing prescription drugs from Murphy’s Pharmacy in Cornwall, P.E.I., while she was employed as a pharmacy technician there.