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Health professionals across Saskatchewan were buoyed by news Tuesday the province may have finally bucked a trend toward nursing shortages.
According to a recent survey conducted by the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN), the province has 50 fewer full-time nursing vacancies than at this time last year.
"There are a few less vacancies. So I think it is good news that we appear to have turned the tide and the vacancy numbers are not increasing," SUN president Rosalee Longmoore said.
"But we must be diligent because we have about 1,600 nurses who can retire between now and 2012. So we really need to be fairly aggressive to fill current vacancies and be prepared for future retirements."
Nursing vacancies in the Saskatoon Health Region are down by 61 spots, says Bonnie Blakely, a health region vice-president.
Last year at this time, the health region had 196 nursing vacancies. Currently there are 135 open spots, 100 of which are full-time equivalents, Blakely says.
The drop is even more impressive given the health region also created and filled more than 50 new nursing spots in the same time frame.
Blakely attributes the drop in shortages to provincial funding for recruitment, a strong collective agreement for nurses and a working relationship between the health regions and SUN.
Although much has been made of the province's international recruiting efforts in countries such as the Philippines, Blakely says the Saskatoon region has been able to hire predominantly local nurses.
"With very little international recruitment, we've closed that gap," she said, noting the region retains 80 per cent of its nursing grads.
Although happy to see the tide turning, Blakely says there's still a lot of work to do if the province expects to meet its target of 800 new nurses by 2010.
"I think Saskatchewan is very fortunate but we need to go back and continue to focus on those other hard-to-recruit areas," she said, noting that gains in regions such as Saskatoon are still offsetting less than stellar recruitment figures in rural areas.
Under a SUN-government recruitment and retention partnership agreement signed earlier this year, a $60-million fund was established to address the nursing shortage.
On Tuesday, $4.35 million of that fund was provided to health regions to help them reach their newly established nursing targets and to continue working on the province's nursing shortage through recruitment and retention initiatives developed by a joint SUN-health authority committee source
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