HERE’S ONE item Marg
Petrick won't have to
worry ‘about paying duty
for from her recent trip to

Australia and New
Zealand — four registered
nurses,

The four will arrive in
‘Terrace next year and are
among 2 contingent recrui-
ted when the Terrace and
Area Health Council nur-
sing director joined a
small group of health care
professionals on a Novem-
ber mission to the two
countries sponsored by the
provincial goverment.

It was designed as an
immediate measure ta fill
nursing vacancies until
more. nurses can be trained
in B.C,

Petrick represented
tural hospitals on the trip
and:found nurses for other
smaller hospitals else-
where in the province.

The group interviewed
143 nurses in four cities
and. from that accepted 36
for placement in B.C.

"pending reference checks.
+ “Some of them could
transfer certification right
over to the RNABC
[Registered Nurses Asso-
ciation of B.C. which qua-
lifications] while others, in
specialities such as obste-
trics- and pedes needed
more, clinical work,” said
Petrick.

One of the four people
coming here is a registered
psychiatric nurse, one has
a specialty in labour and
delivery, one is an opera-
ting room nurse and the
fourth is an acute care
nurse.

“This will certainly
help,” said Petrick of the
-four who will work at Mills

and that means a lot.”

~ Petrick said a lot of the
nurses. who were inter-
viewed had done home-
work on British Columbia.

ae full he wa

tunity to work and to
travel.”

The nurses were also
impressed at the wages
and benefits registered

~- nurses in B.C. can now
earn thanks to a recent
“three-year contract. —
‘:“Money did come up,”

said Petrick. “The wages
and benefits here are
better.”

rive by spring, pending re-
ference checks and immi-
gration paperwork.

The fourth, a registered
psychiatric nurses, doesn’t
plan on moving to Terrace
until August,

The B.C. recruiters vi-
sited four cities in Austra-
jia and New Zealand,

* spending 10 days in total
on interviews.

They were in constant
contact via email with
Health Match, a B.C.

Couple
picked up

POLICE SAID they ar-
rested a man and a woman
around 5 a.m. Dec. 3 for
possession of stolen prop--
erty.
The two, both age 20,
were arrested'on Haugland
St. and police allege they
had items believed to have
come from vehicles on the
southside of Terrace.
The Terrace RCMP are
requesting the ‘public
i check their property and
report any damage done or
property stolen.
‘If you have information,
please call the Terrace
RCMP at 638-7400.

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agency which tracks nur-
sing and physician vacan-
cies, to ensure they had up
to date information.
BEBE

The head of the Health
Employers Association of
B.C, says the province is
holding its own when it
comes to filling nursing
vacancies,

“We can get five in and
one leaves, We're still be-
hind the eight-ball,” said
Gary Moser last week.

Bui he estimates there
is a still a province-wide
shortage of approximately
600 nurses.

One thing that hasn’t
happened is a whole-sale
exodus of nurses, as was
predicted, stemming from
the dispute over wages
earlier this year.

“There's been very lit-
tle movement of people
out of the province in the
last six months,” said

Nurses are recruited
after trip Down Under

Marg Petrick

Maser, ’
“The enthusiasm for
people to leave turned out
to be not particularly
merited,” said Moser,

A three-year contract
imposed by the province in
-August gave nurses in-
creases of 24 per cent,

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 19, 2001 - A7,

MacKay’s Funeral Service Ltd.

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Trustees to switch
to new phone system

SCHOOL TRUSTEES have voted to try out a dif-
ferent teleconferencing system in the board office.

Five trustees represent areas outside Terrace
and an improved phone system is wanted to allow
them to dial in to board meetings when extreme
winter weather keeps them from driving here,

Hazeltons trustee Pete Weeber said the existing
phone system is frustrating because he can hear
only about half of what happens al the board mect-
ing when he listens in by phone. “It’s a total nega-
tive experience,” he said..-

Trustees decided Dec. 5 to try out a system used
by North Coast Distance Education.

Maintenance superintendent Robert Gilfillan
said if it works it may be possible to share the sys-
tem, setting it up in the board office when needed.

The alternative, he told the board, is to spend
about $5,000 on a new teleconference system that
might or might net work.

“Tvs a gamble,” Gilfillan said, “You can put it
in and see if it works.”

Gilfillan said acoustics are hampered by the
high ceilings in the board office and the L- shaped
configuration of the board table.

If less expensive options don't work, he said, it
might be necessary to hire a sound engineer to
study the problern.

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