By THE CANADIAN PRESS
Premier Ed Stelmach is renewing his government’s promise to train 2,000 nurses within the next two years amid warnings of grim job prospects for nursing graduates in Alberta.
The premier used his “Ask Premier Ed” Internet video on health care to encourage nursing students to continue in their programs to fill nursing jobs he expects will be vacated by retiring baby boomers.
But this contrasts with an Internet blog by Alberta Health Services chief executive Stephen Duckett, who warns that times will be “tough” for nursing grads in the next couple of years. Read More…
