Medical Briefs They’re back THOSE FILIPINO nurses living in Libya who want to come to Terrace appear to be back on the health council’s radar scope. Once all but written off because of the difficulty of writing an English proficiency exam as the first step toward coming here, the effort has been re- newed to bring the five nurses to Terrace. This time the nurses are working with Health Match, a provincial organization which works to speed up immigration and certification checks. “They’re phoning and faxing,” Mills Memoriai nursing director Marg Petrick said. “They really want to come.” . , ~ The key is to their potential arrival is taking the English proficiency exam and it’s here where Health Match is being used, she said. Health Match works with a specific immigration program called the Provincial Nominee Program which targets foreign-trained people whe have skills badly needed in B.C, At the same time, a Filipino nurse now in the United States is making arrangements to take the English exam and a regisicred nurse now working in Kenya has expressed an interest in moving to Terrace. Heading overseas HEALTH COUNCIL nursing director Marg Petrick is to embark on a two-country, four-city overseas recruiting trip in November to altract badly needed specialty nurses to B.C. She and four others will taik to nurses in Australia and New Zealand as part of the effart to overcome cri- tical nursing shortages here. “Hopefully we can find some,” said Pe- trick of the trip planned for Nov. 1 to Nov. 18. She and others will be talking to candidates who have already been screened. Petrick will represent rural hospitals on the tour. Marg Petrick Help needed badly FINDING MORE nurses for Mills Memorial Hospi- tal can’t happen too fast. The facility will have a shortage of emergency room and intensive care unit specialty nurses in October, says nursing dir- ector Marg Petrick. ; “It’s going to be a struggle. We're really going to be short-handed,” she said, 7 ‘An unexpected injury to’a nurse and others with * vacation time are among the reasons for the com- ing shortage, Petrick added. : A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 26, 2001 Job cuts attacked THE STUDENTS associa- tion at Northwest Com- munity College is criticis- ing the provincial govern- ment’s decision to chop a sludent employment pro- gram. NWCC was one of 12 post secondary institutions in B.C. that hired students through the now-elimina- ted Public Sector Youth Employment program. Karen McAthy, external affairs coordinator for NWCC’s student associa- tian, said the jobs provided welcome income for north- west students - and for some northerners who've transferred to southern schools. She wondered why the province would cut a pro- gram that helped students find jobs in related fields of study at post-secondary institutions, school dis- tricts and other places in the public sector, “Where else are stu- dents going to find these kind of jobs?” The $800,000 program was launched by the NDP. Several NWCC stu- dents held jobs last year through the program, which was supposed to provide 120 jobs across B.C, this year, including 60 at the University of Victoria, “It’s the principle of the thing, what the program was providing for students and the public sector,” said McAthy. She said the loss of the job program will hurt stu- dents much like the pro- vinee’s recent decision to require credit checks for student loan applicants. 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