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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.

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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.

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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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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,

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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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