BC Government announces new nursing positions province wide
KAMLOOPS — Health Minister Terry Lake announced a major province-wide nursing hire this morning, as well as a recruitment drive funded in part by the BC Nurses Union.
Lake says about 300 nurses will be hired full time in Interior Health, but hundreds more across the province.
“1,643 new nurses by the end of March of this year, so [it’s] a very aggressive target and that will largely come from casual nursing positions that are currently being used, and looking to regularize, make full-time those positions,” said Lake.